- Transliteration: Diaskorpizo

- Phonetic: dee-as-kor-pid'-zo

- Definition:

1. to scatter abroad, disperse, to winnow

a. to throw the grain a considerable distance, or up into the air, that it may be separated from the chaff

b. to gather the wheat, freed from the chaff into the granary

c. to winnow grain

- Origin: from G1223" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1223 and G4650" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4650

- TDNT entry: 13:58,1

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G1223" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1223 and G4650" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4650; to dissipate that is (generally) to rout or separate; specifically to winnow; figuratively to squander: - disperse scatter (abroad) strew waste.