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# זָרַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2236

**to toss** — used 35 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

to toss [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2236/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָרַק: vb. to toss throw scatter abundantly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2236/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. to toss or throw (in a volume), scatter abundantly (NH id.; Aramaic זְרַק id., ܙܪܰܩ disperse; Assyrian zarâḳu Lotz TP 138 Jäger BAS ii. 292 Anm.; cf. also Arabic زَرَقَ cast at, pierce, زَرَّاقَةٌ and مِزْرَاقٌ javelin = Ethiopic ምዝራቅ )— Pf. ז׳ Ex 24:6 Lv 17:6, sf. זְרָקוֹ Ex 9:8, זָֽרְקָה Ho 7:9 (12 times Pf.); Impf. יִזְרֹק Lv 7:2 + 16 times; Inf. לִזְרֹק Ez 43:18; Imv. זְרֹק Ez 10:2; Pt. זֹרֵק Lv 7:14, pl. זֹרְקִים 2 Ch 30:16; toss (in handfuls, v. Ex 9:8; or from a bowl, מִזְרָק; opp. הִזָּה to sprinkle with the finger): cummin Is 28:25, dust, sq. עַל 2 Ch 34:4 Jb 2:12; ashes השׁמימה, heavenward, Ex 9:8, 10 (P), coals of fire על העיר Ez 10:2. blood, על (ה)מזבח throw (from a bowl) against the altar Ex 24:6 (JE), Lv 17:6 (H), Nu 18:17 (P), 2 K 16:13, 15 Ez 43:18, especially in the ritual, על המזבח סביב against the altar round about Ex 29:16, 20 Lv 1:5, 11; 3:2, 8, 13; 7:2; 8:19, 24; 9:12, 18 (all P); sq. על העם Ex 24:8 (JE), sq. המזבחה 2 Ch 29:22(×3); without designation of place Lv 7:14 (P), 2 Ch 30:16; 35:11. water for purification, sq. על, Ez 36:25. intrans. (si vera l.) Ho 7:9 גַּם שֵׂיבָה זָֽרְקָה בּוֹ grey hairs are profuse upon him (?read זָֽרְחָה, as in 2 Ch 26:19). Pf. זֹרַק, of water of purification poured over (עַל) one defiled by a corpse Nu 19:13, 20 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he sprinkled (5); they will sprinkle (5); they sprinkled (4).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 8:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.8.19/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁחָ֑ט וַיִּזְרֹ֨ק מֹשֶׁ֧ה אֶת־הַדָּ֛ם עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and he.cut.the.throat.of.\[it\] and he.sprinkled Moses (et) the blood on the altar all.around

*JPS 1917:* And when it was killed, Moses dashed the blood against the altar round about.

[2 Chronicles 35:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.11/#tree)

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ הַפָּ֑סַח וַיִּזְרְק֤וּ הַכֹּהֲנִים֙ מִיָּדָ֔ם וְהַלְוִיִּ֖ם מַפְשִׁיטִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.slaughtered the passover and they.sprinkled the priests from hand their and the Levites \[were\].skinning.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* And they killed the passover lamb, and the priests dashed the blood, which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2236.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2236/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).