The word in Scripture

Scatter in the Bible

The word scatter appears 38 times in the King James Version of the Bible. To scatter is to disperse; God gathers what sin scatters. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What scatter means in the Bible

To scatter is to disperse; God gathers what sin scatters.

Where the word scatter appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word scatter appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”Genesis 11:9

“I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:”Deuteronomy 32:26

“Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.”Psalms 59:11

“To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.”Psalms 106:27

“When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?”Isaiah 28:25

“Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.”Isaiah 41:16

“Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.”Jeremiah 13:24

“Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.”Jeremiah 23:1