δια-σπορά, -ᾶς, ἡ
(< διασπείρω), [in LXX of Israelites dispersed and exiled in foreign lands, as De 28:25 (זַעֲוָה) 30:4 (נדח ni.), Is 49:6 (נער); by meton., of the exiles themselves (as Ps 146 (147):2, II Mac 1:27);]
a dispersion: δ. τῶν Ἑλλήνων, Jo 7:35; metaph., of Christians (DB, iii, 782 f.), Ja 1:1, I Pe 1:1 (v. Hort, in ll.).†