Diaspora denotes a dispersed body or people group, named in greetings and as a destination among the Greeks.

The term denotes a dispersed body of people: it names those addressed in greetings in 1 Peter 1:1 and James 1:1, and a group associated with Greeks as a possible destination in John 7:35.

1. A dispersed people or body · dominant

   In 1 Peter 1:1, the genitive singular form identifies the recipients as “strangers of the dispersion” in named places; in James 1:1, the dative singular form occurs in the greeting to “the twelve tribes that are in the dispersion.” John 7:35 uses the accusative singular form in a question about going “to the dispersion of the Greeks” and teaching Greeks.

   1 Peter 1:1James 1:1John 7:35

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “the dispersion” in all three verses, attaching it to strangers, twelve tribes, and Greeks respectively. These phrases confirm the clauses' setting rather than establish finer distinctions.