diaspora
noun
[ dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə ]
• the dispersion of the Jewish people beyond Israel.
Origin:
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’.
