בָּזַר
to scatter
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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.
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H967 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms 1 verse
Daniel 1 verse
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.
בזר — transliterated bâzar — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to scatter.” It occurs a mere 2 verses across Scripture. More than half of its appearances fall in Psalms. Debuting at Psalms 68:30, it then recurs through the corpus. Read the stem: it spans 2 stems, including Qal and Piel. See the sense tree, 2-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H967 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
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: He shall scatter 1×, Scatter 1×
- American Standard Version: He hath scattered 1×, He shall scatter 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: He will lavish 1×, Scatter 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: He scatters 1×, He will scatter 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H967 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H967 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H967 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H967 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Impf. Dn 11:24 בִּזָּה וְשָׁלָל וּרְכוּשׁ לָהֶם יִבְז֑וֹר plunder and spoil and possessions he will scatter among them (subj. Antiochus Epiph.) e.g. Daniel 11:24
Piel
- Pf. בִּזַּר, id., ψ 68:31, but read Imv. בַּזֵּר (בַּזַּר) (𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 so most; De follows MT), subj. ref. to י׳, obj. עַמִּים. e.g. Psalms 68:31
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. scatter (Arabic بَذَرَ, Aramaic בְּדַר)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּזַר
- , v. בזע) to strew, scatter. Kerith. 6ᵇ בֹּוזְרָהּ Ar. (ed. incorr. בזורה, v. Rashi a. l.) he scatters it, lest it may decay.
- same. Part. pass. מְבוּזָּר. Sifra B’har ch. I אבל אתה בוצר מן המב׳ ed. Ven. a. oth. (Var. המופקר) but you may gather (in the Sabbath year) the grapes from (broken) branches lying scattered on the ground, opp. השמור בארץ the vine seated in the ground (Y. Shebi. VII, 38ᵇ top המובקר).
בְּזַר
- Pa. בַּזַּר. B. Bath. 73ᵃ, v. בְּזַק.
זֵר
- , v. זֵיר
זָר
- v. זוּר a.
- 1. stranger; (in Talm. mostly) non-priest, layman. Zeb. II, 1. Ib. 14ᵃ; Yoma 49ᵃ; a. fr.—Fem. זָרָה. Yeb. 85ᵇ ותהא ז׳ וכ׳ granted that she is not of a priestly family;—is not a lay-woman permitted &c.?
- 2. oppressor, enemy. Y. Ned. IX, beg. 41ᵇ (ref. to אל זר, Ps. LXXXI, 10) זר שבקרבך וכ׳ do not make the enemy within thyself thy king; Sabb. 105ᵇ איזהו אל זר וכ׳ which is the tyrannical power within thee?—Ex. R. s. 34 (play on זֵר a. זָר, v. זֵיר) if one is worthy נעשים לו זֵר ואם לאו זר they are to him a crown, if not—an enemy; Tanḥ. Vayakh. 8.—Fem. זָרָה. Yoma 72ᵇ נעשית לו ז׳ Ms. O. (Ms. M. נעשית ז׳ ממנו) the Law appears to him a tyrant (Ms. M. she becomes estranged from him, v. זוּר). e.g. Psalms 81:10
- 3. outcast; shunned, loathsome (v. זָרָא). Num. R. s. 7 (play on זָרָא, Num. XI, 20) והיאך נעשה ז׳ וכ׳ and how does he become an outcast? Leprosy overcomes him.—Pl. זָרִים. Ib. ז׳ מן הקהל excluded from the congregation.—Zeb. III, 1; a. fr. e.g. Numbers 11:20
זָר ²
- Targ. Ps. XLIV, 19, v. זְהַהּ.—Sabb. 82ᵇ, v. נְכַר.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H967 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בִּזַּ֥ר | Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 68:30 | 1 |
| יִבְז֑וֹר | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Daniel 11:24 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
