Diaspora (noun)
dai-as-po-ra
The dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel.
The dispersion or spread of any people from their original homeland.
The main diaspora began in the 8th–6th centuries BC, and even before the sack of Jerusalem in AD 70 the number of Jews dispersed by the diaspora was greater than that living in Israel. Thereafter, Jews were dispersed even more widely throughout the Roman world and beyond
Greek, from diaspeirein ‘disperse’, from dia ‘across’ + speirein ‘scatter’. The term originated in the Septuagint (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth’.
Example sentences
“The empire caused a diaspora that hadn’t been seen since biblical times.”
