Original Language Studio
Psalms 106:38
“And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8210 · Hebrew
- 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
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- cast (up), gush out, pour (out), shed(-der, out), slip.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּֽשְׁפְּכ֨וּ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 117 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 9:6Genesis 9:6Genesis 37:22Exodus 4:9Exodus 29:12
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׁפַךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.