σκορπίζω
to scatter
‘to scatter’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
1 verse where G4650 appears in the Present tense in the Book of John. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
σκορπιζω — transliterated skorpízō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to scatter.” With only 5 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in John. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 12:30. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4650 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,648
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,648 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Gospels 4 verses · 80%
- Johannine 2 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Scattereth 2×
- American Standard Version: Scattereth 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scatters 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scatters 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4650 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4650 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4650 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4650 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- of those who, routed or terror stricken or driven by some other impulses, fly in every direction
- to scatter abroad (what others may collect for themselves), or one dispensing blessings literally
Word origin
Derived from σκορπιος (skorpíos) (G4651) — scorpion.
Apparently from the same as G4651 (through the idea of penetrating ); to dissipate that is (figuratively) put to flight waste be liberal : - disperse abroad scatter (abroad).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G4650 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| σκορπίζει skorpízei | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 12:30 | 3 |
| σκορπισθῆτε skorpisthē̂te | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural | John 16:32 | 1 |
| ἐσκόρπισεν eskórpisen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 2 Corinthians 9:9 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word σκορπιζω appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 7 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 2 Samuel 22:15 σκορπίζω
- Ezra 14:13 σκορπίζω
- Job 39:15 σκορπίζω
- Psalms 17:15 σκορπίζω
- Ezekiel 5:12 σκορπίζω
- Habakkuk 3:10 σκορπίζω
- Malachi 2:3 σκορπίζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4650) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Samuel 22:15 σκορπίζω He sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and confused them.
- Ezra 14:13 σκορπίζω
- Job 39:15 σκορπίζω And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them.
- Psalms 17:15 σκορπίζω As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
- Psalms 111:9 σκορπίζω He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
- Psalms 143:6 σκορπίζω I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
- Ezekiel 5:12 σκορπίζω A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Habakkuk 3:10 σκορπίζω The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The tempest of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.
- Malachi 2:3 σκορπίζω Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4650) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
