Deuteronomy 15:23
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground 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...
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
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 →חָלַל châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Study H2490 →Cross References
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
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