Lexical Summary diaspora: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries) Original Word: διασποράTransliteration: diaspora Phonetic Spelling: (dee-as-por-ah') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries) Meaning: a dispersion (Israelites in Gentile countries) Strong's Concordance diaspora, a dispersion From diaspeiro; dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries -- (which are) scattered (abroad). see GREEK diaspeiro Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1290: διασποράδιασπορά, διασπορᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά) (Vulg.dispersio), a scattering, dispersion: ἀτομων, opposed to σύμμιξις καί παραζευξις, Plutarch, mor., p. 1105 a.; in the Sept. used of the Israelites dispersed among foreign nations, Deuteronomy 28:25; Deuteronomy 30:4; especially of their Babylonian exile, Jeremiah 41:17 |