Bible word study

Shaphak (Strong’s H8210): Meaning in the Bible

Shaphak (שָׁפַךְ) is the Hebrew word numbered H8210 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out. In the King James Bible it is translated cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out).

• Original wordשָׁפַךְ
• Transliterationshâphak
• Pronunciationshaw-fak'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH8210
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Shaphak appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Shaphak (H8210) stands behind 114 English renderings in 110 verses across 24 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (33), Psalms (11), Leviticus (8).

How the King James Bible renders Shaphak, by count

• out47 of 114 (41 percent)
• shed34 of 114 (30 percent)
• pour12 of 114 (11 percent)
• cast6 of 114 (5 percent)
• poured6 of 114 (5 percent)
• up3 of 114 (3 percent)

Three places to read Shaphak

• Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
• Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
• Ezekiel 16:36 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Shaphak in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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