Deuteronomy 12:16
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
דָּם
dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...
שָׁפַךְ
shâphak
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....
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁפַךְ shâphak
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
Study H8210 →דָּם dâm
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
Study H1818 →Cross References
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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