zarak · sprinkle, dash

What it means

zarak (זָרַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sprinkle, dash”.

Throw (blood against the altar, water, dust); scatter.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To throw blood or water in a spray.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• splashed ×13
• shall splash ×8
• splash ×3
• splashing ×2
• I will sprinkle ×1
• scatter them ×1
• scattered it ×1
• sprinkled ×1
• they scattered ×1
• threw ×1
• others ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Leviticus×12
• Numbers×3
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 9:8

  YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

• Exodus 9:10

  So they took the soot of the kiln and stood before Pharaoh, and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils with blisters breaking out on people and on animals.

• Exodus 24:6

  Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he splashed on the altar.

• Exodus 24:8

  Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, “Look, the blood of the covenant that YHWH has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

• Exodus 29:16

  You shall slaughter the ram and take its blood and splash it on the altar all around.

• Exodus 29:20

  You shall slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the lobe of the right ear of Aaron and on the lobe of the ear of his sons, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and splash the blood on the altar all around.

• Leviticus 1:5

  He shall slaughter the young bull before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall present the blood and splash the blood against the altar all around, the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 1:11

  He shall slaughter it on the side of the altar northward before YHWH, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash its blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 3:2

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall splash the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 3:8

  He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 3:13

  He shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 7:2

  In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering they shall slaughter the guilt offering, and its blood he shall splash against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 7:14

  From it he shall present one from each offering as a contribution to YHWH; it shall belong to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offerings, to him.

• Leviticus 8:19

  He slaughtered it, and Moses splashed the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 8:24

  He brought near the sons of Aaron, and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the big toe of their right foot; and Moses splashed the blood against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 9:12

  He slaughtered the burnt offering, and the sons of Aaron handed the blood to him, and he splashed it against the altar all around.

• Leviticus 9:18

  He slaughtered the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace that was for the people, and the sons of Aaron handed the blood to him, and he splashed it against the altar all around,

• Leviticus 17:6

  And the priest shall splash the blood on the altar of YHWH at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and offer up in smoke the fat for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 18:17

  But the firstborn of a bull or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you shall not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you shall splash on the altar, and their fat you shall burn as a fire offering, for a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Numbers 19:13

  Everyone who touches a dead person, the body of a human being who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the dwelling of YHWH, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water of impurity was not splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

• Numbers 19:20

  But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, for he has defiled the sanctuary of YHWH; the water of impurity has not been splashed on him; he is unclean.

• 2 Kings 16:13

  He offered up in smoke his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured his libation, and splashed the blood of the peace offerings that were his on the altar.

• 2 Kings 16:15

  King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar offer up in smoke the burnt offering of the morning and the grain offering of the evening, and the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their libations; and all the blood of burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice you shall splash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

• 2 Chronicles 29:22

  They slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and splashed it on the altar; and they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; and they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar.

• 2 Chronicles 30:16

  They stood at their post according to their rule, according to the law of Moses the man of Elohim; the priests were splashing the blood received from the hand of the Levites.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 35:11

  They slaughtered the Passover, and the priests splashed the blood they received from their hand, and the Levites were skinning.

• Job 2:12

  They lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept; each tore his robe, and they scattered dust over their heads toward the heavens.

• Isaiah 28:25

  Is it not that, when he has leveled its surface, he scatters black cumin and throws cumin, and puts wheat in rows and barley in its marked place and spelt at its border?

• Ezekiel 10:2

  And he spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirl, under the cherub, and fill your cupped hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.

• Ezekiel 36:25

  And I will sprinkle on you clean water, and you will be clean; from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

• Ezekiel 43:18

  And he said to me, “Son of man, thus says Adonai YHWH: These are the statutes of the altar on the day it is made, for offering up on it burnt offering and for splashing on it blood.

• Hosea 7:9

  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; gray hair also is sprinkled on him, and he does not know it.

And 2 more times.