Strong's Concordance
Original word: פּוּץ
Transliteration: puwts
Definition (short): pieces
Definition (full): to be dispersed or scattered
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) -- break (dash, shake) in (to) pieces, cast (abroad), disperse (selves), drive, retire, scatter (abroad), spread abroad.
References
KJV:
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
NASB:
and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were spread abroad.
KJV:
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
NASB:
They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."
KJV:
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
NASB:
So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
KJV:
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
NASB:
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.