BDB2446
[זָרָה] verb scatter, fan, winnow (Arabic [untranscribed source text 1553] cause to fly, scatter (of wind), winnow; Aramaic דְּרָא , [untranscribed source text 1554]; Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 1555] —
Qal
Imperfect
וַיִּ֫זֶר
Exod 32:20 2
masculine singular תִּזְרֶה
Ezek 5:2 suffix
תִּזְרֵם
Isa 30:22;
Isa 41:16
וָאֶזְרֵם
Jer 15:7
Imperative
זְרֵה
Num 17:2
Infinitive
לִזְרוֺת
Jer 4:11
Participle
זֹרֶה
Ruth 3:2; Isa 30:24 —
1.
scatter, the powder into which golden calf was ground Exod 32:20 (
E
, object not expressed); with accusative (strange) fire from censers Num 17:2 (
P
); hair (symbolic act) Ezek 5:2; Isa 30:22.
2.
fan, winnow, object גֹּרֶן הַשְּׂעוֺרִים
Ruth 3:2; Isa 30:24
(where Participle has indefinite subject), Isa 41:16 metaphor, object mountains and hills, figurative
of winnowing; figurative fan, winnow, in purification Jer 4:11 (|| לְהָכַ֑ר); in chastisement Jer 15:7(
בְּמִזְרֶה
׳
ז).
Niph`al
Imperfect
וַיִּזָּרוּ
Ezek 36:19
be scattered, dispersed, of Israel; Infinitive
בְּהִזָּרוֺתֵיכֶם
Ezek 6:8
when ye shall be dispersed (on plural suffix Ew§
259 b, but Co strike out י).
Pi`el
Perfect suffix וְזֵרָם
1Kgs
14:15
זִרֵ֑יתָ
Ps 139:3
, suffix זֵירִיתָ֫נוּ
Ps 44:12
וְזֵרִיתִ֫י
Ezek 5:10
etc.; Infinitive
זָרוֺת
Ezek
20:23 etc.; —
1. (intensive of Qal) scatter, disperse, especially of peoples,
with accusative (Israel and Judah) 1Kgs 14:15; Lev 26:33 (
H
),
Ps 44:12;
Jer 31:10;
Ezek 5:10;
Ezek 5:12; Ezek
12:14;
Ezek 12:15; Ezek 20:23; Ezek 22:15 compare Zech 2:2;
Zech 2:4
(twice in verse); Ps 106:27 bones of Israel Ezek 6:5 people of Hazor Jer 49:32
of Elam
Jer 49:36 of Babylon Jer 51:2 (זָרִים = strangers ?);
Egyptians
Ezek 29:12; Ezek 30:26 + Ezek 30:23 (strike out
Co, internal grounds); in general the wicked Prov
20:26 evil
Prov 20:8 participle מְזָרִים = substantive
scatterers, epithet of winds Job 37:9 (compare Qor 51:1); וְזֵרִיתִי
פֶּרֶשׁ עלפֿניכם
Mal 2:3
scatter dung on your faces (token of shame and curse); figurative
disperse knowledge (of lips) Prov 15:7.
2.
winnow, sift (compare
Qal
2) only figurative אָרְחִי וְרִבְעִי זֵרִ֑יתָ
Ps 139:3
my path and my couch thou siftest (Che
; BaZMG 1887, 607
measurest, determinest, whence
זֶרֶת
q. v.)
Pu`al
be scattered, Imperfect
יְזֹרֶה
Job 18:15, subject גָּפְרִית followed by
עַל; Participle feminine מְזֹרָה (agreeing
with רָשֶׁ֑ת
net) Prov 1:17.