to scatter
diaskorpizo describes people being dispersed or possessions being spread out rather than gathered.
The attested usage chiefly concerns people dispersed from a group or gathering: followers, children, the arrogant, and sheep are presented as spread apart. A second usage concerns possessions or estate being spread out, set in contrast with gathering.
Senses in use
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Dispersing people from a group · dominant
In Acts 5:37 the APB renders those persuaded by Judas as “scattered” after he perished, while John 11:52 describes children of God as “scattered” before being gathered into one. In Mark 14:27 and Matthew 26:31, the future passive form occurs in the clause about striking the shepherd and the sheep being “scattered”; Luke 1:51 likewise places the action upon the arrogant.
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Spreading out possessions or estate · common
In Luke 15:13, the aorist active form occurs where the younger son goes to a distant country and the APB renders his treatment of his estate as “scattered.” Luke 16:1 uses a present active participle in an accusation concerning possessions, and Matthew 25:24 and Matthew 25:26 place the action opposite gathering in the servant's statement and the master's reply.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “scattered” across the supplied verses, for both people and possessions. In Luke 16:1 it instead phrases the accusation as “scattering his possessions”; these are verse-level renderings, not definitions.