To pour
שָׁפַךְStrong’s H8210shaphakh (sha-phakh)
Appears in 111 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shaphakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pour out”, “shed” and “poured out”. It appears in 111 verses of the Old Testament.
“So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.”
Meaning
- To pour, pour out, spill(Qal) · (Niphal) to be poured out, be shed · (Pual) to be poured out, be shed · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- he will pour out 7
- pour out 7
- to shed 7
- and i will pour out 6
- to pour out 5
- you shed 4
- poured out 4
- you have shed 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 32
- Psalms 12
- Leviticus 8
- Jeremiah 7
- Lamentations 7
- Deuteronomy 6
24 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 12:10In contextAnd 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 have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
- Genesis 9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Genesis 37:22And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
- Exodus 4:9And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
- Exodus 29:12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.
- Leviticus 4:7And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the LORD, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
All 111 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁפַךְ shaphakh · to pour
: pour 1) to pour, pour out, spill 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pour, pour out 1a2) to shed (blood) 1a3) to pour out (anger or heart) (fig) 1b) (Niphal) to be poured out, be shed 1c) (Pual) to be poured out, be shed 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to be poured out 1d2) to pour out oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POUR, verb transitive
- To throw, as a fluid in a stream, either out of a vessel, or into it; as, to pour water from a pail, or out of a pail; to pour wine into a decanter. pour is appropriately but not exclusively applied to fluids, and signifies merely to cast or throw, and this sense is modified by out, from, in, into, against, on, upon, under, etc.“I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” Joel 2:28
- To emit; to send forth in a stream or continued succession.
- To send forth; as, to pour out words, prayers or sighs; to pour out the heart or soul. Psalms 62:8
- To throw in profusion or with overwhelming force.“I will shortly pour out my fury on thee” Ezekiel 7:8
All definitions and other forms of “pour”
POUR, verb intransitive
To flow; to issue forth in a stream, or continued succession of parts; to move or rush, as a current. The torrent pours down from the mountain, or along the steep descent.
- To rush in a crowd or continued procession.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.