to scatter
pa.zar denotes scattering or spreading out, whether people, remains, gifts, or frost are dispersed.
The occurrences show scattering or spreading something abroad: people and bones are described as dispersed, while active forms describe giving outwardly, scattering frost, and scattering ways. The supplied translation does not make the term’s contribution explicit in Psalm 53:6 or Psalm 89:11.
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Scattering or spreading abroad · dominant
Passive participles describe a people as scattered among the provinces in Esther 3:8, Israel as a scattered flock in Jeremiah 50:17, and bones as scattered at the lip of Sheol in Psalm 141:7. Active Piel forms describe outward distribution in Proverbs 11:24 and Psalm 112:9, scattering frost in Psalm 147:16, and scattering ways to strangers in Jeremiah 3:13; in Psalm 112:9 the APB renders the clause “He has scattered and given to the needy.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “scattered” for dispersed people, a flock, and bones, and for giving to the needy; it also says “scatters frost” in Psalm 147:16. Its wording does not isolate the term in every occurrence, especially Psalm 53:6 and Psalm 89:11.