σκορπίζω
ξένῳ δὲ σιγᾶν κρεῖττον ἢ κεκραγέναι → it's better for a stranger to keep silence than to shout (Menander)
English (LSJ)
fut.
A -ιῶ LXX Jb.39.15:— scatter, disperse, Ion. word, Hecat.366J. (Pass.); elsewh. only in later writers, LXX 2 Ki.22.15, al., Str.4.4.6, Ev.Matt.12.30, Dsc.4.134, Philum.Ven.12.2; ἐσκορπισμέναι μύξαι CPHerm.7ii 18 (iii A.D.). 2 disintegrate, reduce to powder, Zos.Alch.p.177 B. 3 dissipate, τὸν πατρικὸν βίον Cat.Cod.Astr.2.162.
German (Pape)
[Seite 904] zerstreuen, auseinanderwerfen, -jagen, nach einigen Gramm. ion., nach andern macedonisch, s. Lob. Phryn. 218; schon aus Hecat. angeführt, aber Sp. häufiger, nach Alexander dem Großen; ἐσκορπίσθησαν, Plut. Timol. 4; Luc. asin. 32.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σκορπίζω: μέλλ. -ίσω, διασκορπίζω, διαχέω, ἀπομακρύνω, ἀκριβῶς ὡς τὸ σκεδάννυμι, Ἰων. λέξ. ἐν χρήσει παρὰ τῷ Ἑκαταίῳ (Ἀποσπ. 371), πρβλ. Φρύνιχ. 218, Λοβέκ.· ἀλλ’ ἀλλαχοῦ μόνον παρὰ μεταγεν., οἷον Στράβ. 198, Ἑβδ. καὶ Καιν. Διαθ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ao. Pass. inf. σκορπισθῆναι;
disperser comme avec l’engin σκορπίος.
Spanish
esparcir, hacer una aspersión, separar, dispersar
English (Strong)
apparently from the same as σκορπίος (through the idea of penetrating); to dissipate, i.e. (figuratively) put to flight, waste, be liberal: disperse abroad, scatter (abroad).
English (Thayer)
1st aorist ἐσκορπισα; 1st aorist passive ἐσκορπίσθην; (probably from the root, skarp, 'to cut asunder,' 'cut to pieces'; akin is σκορπίος; cf. Latin scalpere, scrobs, etc.; Fick 1:240; 3:811, etc.)); to scatter: ὁ λύκος σκορπίζει τά πρόβατα, ὁ μήν συνάγων μετ' ἐμοῦ σκορπίζει, συνάγει τούς ἐσκορπισμενους τό ὄργανον (i. e. a trumpet), Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1,56 at the beginning); τινα, in the passive, of those who, routed or terror stricken or driven by some other impulse, fly in every direction: followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Winer's Grammar, 516 (481)) (φοβηθέντες ἐκορπισθησαν, Plutarch, Timol. 4; add, Josephus, Antiquities 6,6, 3). equivalent to to scatter abroad (what others may collect for themselves), of one dispensing blessings liberally: Winer s Grammar, 469 (437)). (According to Phrynichus the word was used by Hecataeus; it was also used — in addition to the writings already cited — by Strabo 4, p. 198; Lucian, asin. 32; Aelian v. h. 13,45 (here διεσκορπίζω (edited by Hercher); λόγους (cf. Latin spargere rumores), Josephus, Antiquities 16,1, 2); cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 218; (Winer s Grammar, 22; 92 (87)); the Sept. for הֵפִיץ, σκεδάννυμι.) (Compare: διασκορπίζομαι.)