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diaspora
1. The dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture); the dispersion of a people from their original homeland.
2. The dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity; such as, a language or culture: “The diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages.”
3. The dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when they were exiled to Babylonia up to the present time.
4. The body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel.
5. Coined 1876 from Greek diaspora, from diaspeirein "to scatter about, to disperse", from dia- "about, across" + speirein, "to scatter". Originally in Deuteronomy of the Old Testament Bible; chapter 28, verse 25: "The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."
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