What is the relevant semantic aspect of the Qur’anic expression about dispersal?

Classifying Metaphor by Its Terms and Common Feature: Concordance, Opposition and Inclusion

• Restricting the word to literal bodily dismemberment
• Treating it as both dispersion and intact unity
• Treating it only as an indicator of simile, not a semantic transfer
• Portraying the breakup of a collective into dispersed groups