Lexicon :: Strong's G1290 - diaspora

διασπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ, (διασπείρω, cf. such words as ἀγορά, διαφθορά), (Vulg. dispersio), a scattering, dispersion: ἀτομων, opposed to σύμμιξις κ. παράζευξις, 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 (Jer. 34:17); Isaiah 49:6; Judith 5:19; abstract for concrete of the exiles themselves, Psalm 146:2 (Ps. 147:2) (equivalent to (נִדְחִים, expelled, outcasts); 2 Macc. 1:27; εἰς τ. διασπορὰν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, unto those dispersed among the Greeks [Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 a.], John 7:35. Transferred to Christians [i. e. Jewish Christians (?)] scattered abroad among the Gentiles: James 1:1 (ἐν τῇ διασπορᾷ, namely, οὖσι); παρεπίδημοι διασπορᾶς Πόντου, sojourners far away from home, in Pontus, 1 Peter 1:1 (see παρεπίδημος). [BB. DD. under the word Dispersion; especially Schürer, N. T. Zeitgeseh. § 31.]

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