שָׁפַךְ
sha.phakh
“to pour: pour”
Definition
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
a primitive root;
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word, saying, account
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Occurrences
שָׁפַךְ appears 100 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
but this word of the LORD came to me: ‘You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for My Name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before Me.
But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
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Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley;indeed, they are your lot.Even to them you have poured out a drink offeringand offered a grain offering.Should I relent because of these?
And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.
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