זָרָה
zârâh · zaw-raw'
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H2114 (זוּר));
to toss about; by implication, to diffuse, winnow
- to toss about
- by implication, to diffuse, winnow
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter (away), spread, strew, winnow.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To cut, to sustain of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָרָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
39 occurrences · 39 OT · 0 NT · 35 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and i will scatter4 · 12%
- and disperse4 · 12%
- and will disperse2 · 6%
- which have scattered2 · 6%
- and strawed1 · 3%
- and scatter1 · 3%
- thou wast? behold, he winnoweth1 · 3%
- and shall scatter1 · 3%
- shall be scattered1 · 3%
- and hast scattered1 · 3%
- and to scatter1 · 3%
- thou compassest1 · 3%
- is spread1 · 3%
- disperse1 · 3%
- scattereth away1 · 3%
- scattereth1 · 3%
- thou shalt cast them away1 · 3%
- which hath been winnowed1 · 3%
- thou shalt fan1 · 3%
- not to fan1 · 3%
- and i will fan1 · 3%
- he that scattered1 · 3%
- and will scatter1 · 3%
- that shall fan1 · 3%
- thou shalt scatter1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.