Words

פּוּץ H6327

Home gloss

scatter (qal, intransitive; hiphil, transitive); be scattered (niphal)

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

scatter / spread abroad

Note

One verb through the Table and Babylon: the clans of Canaan "were scattered" (10:18); "lest we scatter" (11:4); Adonai "scattered them" (11:8–9). Kept apart from נָפַץ "disperse" (9:19)

Rulings

37

Occurrences (4)

Genesis 10

• 10:18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite. And afterward the clans of the Canaanite were scattered.

Genesis 11

• 11:4 And they said, "Up, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, and its head in the skies; and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we scatter over the face of all the land."
• 11:8 And scattered them from there over the face of all the land, and they left off building the city.
• 11:9 Thus he called its name Babylon, for there made babble the lip of all the land; and from there scattered them over the face of all the land.