Midvash

פּוּץpûwts

פּוּץ: be dispersed, scattered

Pronunciation: poots · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6327

Meanings

Qal: be dispersed, disperse, be scattered (Psalms 68:2; Ezekiel 48:16; Ezekiel 34:5)

Niph`al

1. be scattered (2 Kings 25:5; Jeremiah 52:8; 1 Kings 22:17)

2. be spread abroad (Genesis 10:18)

Hiph`il

1. scatter

c. and drive him (Job 18:11)

2. scatter (Exodus 5:12; 1 Samuel 13:8; Job 38:24)

פּוּץ: flow, overflow

Qal: my cities shall overflow with good. (Proverbs 5:16; Zechariah 1:17)

פָּצַץ: break

Po`.: shatters rock. (Jeremiah 23:29)

Hithpo`el: and, were shattered (Habakkuk 3:6; Job 16:12)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 67 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 10:18 Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites. The Canaanite clans eventually spread out,
  • Genesis 11:4 Then they said, “Come, let’s build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world.”
  • Genesis 11:8 In that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world, and they stopped building the city.
  • Genesis 11:9 That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.
  • Genesis 49:7 A curse on their anger, for it is fierce; a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel. I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob; I will disperse them throughout Israel.
  • Exodus 5:12 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt in search of stubble to use as straw.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).