שֶׁ֫פֶךְ
place of pouring
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8211 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
שפך (shephek) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “place of pouring.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Leviticus, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Leviticus 4:12. From the same root come שפך, שפכה and שופך. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8211 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Are poured out 2×
- American Standard Version: Are poured out 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Are poured out 1×, Heap 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pouring out place of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8211 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8211 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8211 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8211 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- place of pouring
Word origin
n.[m.] place of pouring;—cstr. שׁ׳ הַדֶּשֶׁן Lv 4:12(×2) (P).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שפך (shâphak) (H8210) — to pour.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁפַךְ
- Shaf. of הפך) [to invert,] to pour; to empty. Lam. R. to IV, 11 מזמר אני שהפך חופתו … ולא ש׳ חמתו וכ׳ I sing, because he (the king) has upset his son’s bridal chamber, but has not poured out his anger over his son; שש׳ הקב"ה … ולא ש׳ because the Lord has poured his anger over wood and stone, and did not pour it out over Israel. Yeb. 75ᵇ (ref. to Deut. XXIII, 2) מי שע"י כריתה שׁוֹפֵךְ he who pours (semen, instead of shooting forth, מקלח) in consequence of cutting. Succ. II, 9, v. קִיתוֹן. Y. Sabb. XII, end, 13ᵈ וכתב לא השופך ‘and he writes’ (Deut. XXIV, 3), but not ‘he pours’ (a chemical fluid over a sympathetic writing to make it legible); ib. שופך דיו וכ׳ he pours ink in which there is no gall-nut, and this catches (settles on) the written letters; Y. Gitt. II, 44ᵇ top שָׁפֵיךְ (Chald.); a. fr.—ש׳ דמים to shed blood. Gen. R. s. 34. B. Mets. 58ᵇ, v. לָבַן II; a. fr.—[Midr. Till. to Ps. XXII, 16 שופכין, read: שׁוֹפְתִין, v. שָׁפַת.] e.g. Deuteronomy 23:2
- to be poured out, emptied. Ḥull. 47ᵇ ריאה שׁנִשְׁפְּכָה כקיתון a lung which (by tearing the membrane) is emptied like a ladle. Sot. 42ᵇ (play on שופך, v. שׁוֹבַךְ) שכל הרואה אותו נ׳ לפניו וכ׳ whoever saw him, was poured out before him like a ladle (his courage failed him, cmp. מָסַס). Pes. 22ᵇ דם שנ׳ כמים וכ׳ blood that is poured out like water makes susceptible of uncleanness. Ib. 22ᵃ כמים הנִשְׁפָּכִין like water that is poured out (ordinary water), opp. המתנסכין used for libation. Ib. 20ᵇ תִּשָּׁפֵךְ חבל, v. חֲבַל II. Zeb. VIII, 7, sq. יִשָּׁפֵךְ לאמה shall be poured into the sewer; a. fr.
- to make slanting. Part. pass. מְשׁוּפָּךְ. Yoma 68ᵇ (ref. to שפך, Lev. IV, 12) שיהא מקומו מש׳ the place for the ashes must be sloping; Sifra Vayikra, Hob., Par. 3, ch. V; Zeb. 106ᵃ e.g. Leviticus 4:12
שְׁפַךְ
- Targ. Ez. XXIV, 7. Ib. XXII, 6. Targ. Zech. XII, 10; a. fr.—Ab. Zar. 72ᵇ אמר … כי שַׁפְכִיתוּ וכ׳ R. said to the laborers engaged in filling, when you pour wine (from vessel to vessel) let no gentile come near to help you &c. Y. Sabb. XX, end, 17ᵈ שְׁפוֹךְ, v. צְנִינִים; a. fr.
- to be poured out. Targ. I Kings XIII, 3. Targ. Ps. LXXIX, 10; a. fr.—B. Mets. 26ᵃ אִשְׁתַּפּוּבֵי אִישְׁתַּפּוּךְ the things in the wall were washed down; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8211 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שֶׁ֣פֶךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 4:12 | 1 |
| שֶׁ֥פֶךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 4:12 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8211, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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