(converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries

: , ; metaph., of Christians (, iii, 782 f.), , (v. Hort, in ll.).† a dispersion δ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων Jo 7:35 Ja 1:1 I Pe 1:1 DB

verstrooid, verstrooide, verstrooiing

lit: scattering abroad of seed by the sower, hence: dispersion, used especially of the Jews who had migrated and were scattered over the ancient world.

dispersion

dispersion, i.e. (specially and concretely) the (converted) Israelite resident in Gentile countries

(which are) scattered (abroad)

δια-σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ (διασπείρω), [in LXX of Israelites dispersed and exiled in foreign lands, as Deu.28:25 (זַעֲוָה) Deu.30:4 (נָדַח ni.), Isa.49:6 (נער); by meton., of the exiles themselves (as Psa.147:2, 2Ma.1:27) ;] a dispersion: δ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, Jhn.7:35; metaphorically, of Christians (DB, iii, 782 f.), Jas.1:1, 1Pe.1:1 (see Hort, in ll).† (AS)