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title: פָּזַר — scatter · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פָּזַר (6340), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: scatter. BDB 1906: vb. scatter. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פָּזַר

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«פָּזַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scatter** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 6340 · **BDB:** פָּזַר

### Glosses

he.scatters (2); scattered (2); \[one.who\].scatters (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scatter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6340/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. scatter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6340/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. scatter (usually regarded as secondary form of בזר q.v.; NH id. Pi. (opp. כנם = כנשׁ), Niph.; Arabic فَزَرَ rend, slit, also separate, disperse);— Pt. pass. f. שֶׂה פְזוּרָה Je 50:17 a scattered sheep is Israel (i.e. driven off, isolated). Pf. 3 pl. נִפְזְרוּ ψ 141:7 our bones are scattered לְפִי שְׁאוֹל. Pf. 3 ms. פִּזַּר ψ 53:6; 112:9, etc.; Impf. 3 ms. יְפַזֵּר 147:16; 2 fs. וַתְּפַזְּרִי Je 3:13; Pt. מְפַזֵּר Pr 11:24;—scatter ψ 89:11; 53:6; 147:16 (all subj. י׳), Jo 4:2; obj. דְּרָכַיִךְ Je 3:13, of Isr. running hither and thither to strange gods; abs. of spending money ψ 112:9 (alms), Pr 11:24. Pt. מְפֻוָּר Est 3:8 scattered, of Isr.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פָּזַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6340/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 147:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.147.16/)

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הַנֹּתֵ֣ן שֶׁ֣לֶג כַּצָּ֑מֶר כְּ֝פ֗וֹר כָּאֵ֥פֶר יְפַזֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].gives snow like (the) wool hoar-frost like (the) ash\[es\] he.scatters

*JPS 1917:* He giveth snow like wool; He scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes.

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[Proverbs 11:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.24/)

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יֵ֣שׁ מְ֭פַזֵּר וְנוֹסָ֥ף ע֑וֹד וְחוֹשֵׂ֥ךְ מִ֝יֹּ֗שֶׁר אַךְ־לְמַחְסֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* there.\[is\] \[one.who\].scatters and \[he.is\].increased still and \[one.who\].withholds from uprightness only to lack

*JPS 1917:* There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.

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