שָׁפַךְ shaphakh
Hebrew word for “to pour” · Strong’s H8210 · used 115 times in 111 verses
Meaning
: pour; 1) to pour, pour out, spill;
Senses in the lexicon
- to pour: pour (69)
- to pour: kill (34)
- to pour: build siege mound (8)
- to pour: scatter (4)
How it is translated
Glosses given for shaphakh in context, with how often each is used:
- will pour out 25
- shed 16
- poured out 14
- pour out 13
- have poured out 6
- have shed 4
- will be poured out 3
- pours out 2
- pouring out 2
- has poured out 2
- had poured out 2
- will be shed 2
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel | 33 | 1.8 | |
| Psalms | 12 | 0.6 | |
| Leviticus | 8 | 0.7 | |
| Jeremiah | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Lamentations | 7 | 4.5 | |
| Deuteronomy | 6 | 0.4 | |
| 1 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Kings | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 3 | 0.3 |
Also in 12 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Ezekiel 22 (8), Leviticus 4 (5), Ezekiel 20 (5), Lamentations 2 (4), Deuteronomy 12 (3), Psalms 79 (3), Lamentations 4 (3), Ezekiel 16 (3), Leviticus 17 (2), 2 Samuel 20 (2)
Forms
- שׁפך 18
- ישׁפך 12
- לשׁפך 8
- שׁפכו 7
- שׁפכת 6
- ושׁפכתי 5
- וישׁפכו 4
- וישׁפך 4
- אשׁפוך 4
- תשׁפכו 4
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shaphakh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- דָּם dam “blood” 50
- חֵמָה chemah “rage” 18
- סֹלְלָה solelah “mound” 9
- נָקִי naqi “innocent” 10
- יְסוֹד yesod “foundation” 7
- מַי mayim “water” 11
- מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 9
- כָּלָה kalah “to end” 8
- גִּלּוּל gillul “idol” 6
- אֲדֹנָי adonai “Lord” 9
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 10
- קֶרֶן qeren “horn” 6
Key verses
The verses using shaphakh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Psalms 62:8 — Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
- Jeremiah 7:6 — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
- Jeremiah 22:3 — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the…
- Jeremiah 22:17 — But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
- Ezekiel 16:15 — But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it…
- Ezekiel 20:13 — But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even…
- Ezekiel 22:12 — In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast…
- Ezekiel 22:27 — Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.
- Joel 2:28 — And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream…
- Zephaniah 3:8 — Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the…
- Zechariah 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they…
See all 111 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.