H8211 — שֶׁפֶךְ (shephek)¶

Core Data¶

Strong’s: H8211
Original: שֶׁפֶךְ
Transliteration: shephek
Pronunciation: sheh’-fek
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Root: שָׁפַךְ (shaphak, H8210) — to pour out, spill forth
Occurrences: 1 unique verse (2 tokens) in OT
First Occurrence: Lev 4:12 — “Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.”
Hapax Legomenon: YES — this word appears only once in the entire OT (Lev 4:12), though the verse contains two tokens of it

Lexicon Definition¶

From H8210 (shaphak); an emptying place, e.g. an ash-heap: — are poured out.

The noun denotes the place where something is poured out or dumped — specifically, the designated location outside the camp where sacrificial ashes (deshen) were deposited. The KJV renders the phrase “where the ashes are poured out” as a relative clause, but the underlying noun is a locative: the pouring-place, the ash-dump.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
are poured out	2	100%

Note: Both occurrences are in Lev 4:12. The KJV translates the noun as a verbal clause rather than as a place-noun, obscuring the locative sense of the Hebrew.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Leviticus	1	0.1

Exclusively Levitical — occurs only in the sin-offering legislation of Lev 4. The word belongs entirely to the priestly/cultic register.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Designated Disposal Site for Sacrificial Ashes¶

Lev 4:12 — “Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.”

The shephek is a specific location — a clean place (maqom tahor) outside the camp — designated for the dumping of altar ashes (deshen, H1880). This same location served as the burning site for the entire bull of the sin offering when the anointed priest or the whole congregation sinned (Lev 4:1-12). The word thus sits at the intersection of two ritual concerns: (1) proper disposal of sacred waste, and (2) the complete burning of the sin offering outside the camp.

Common Collocations¶

As a hapax legomenon, no meaningful collocation statistics can be derived from a single verse. However, within Lev 4:12 the following words co-occur:

Word	Strong’s	Relationship	Notes
דֶּשֶׁן (deshen)	H1880	direct association	“the ashes” — the material poured at the shephek
מָקוֹם (maqom)	H4725	apposition	“a clean place” — describes the shephek location
טָהוֹר (tahor)	H2889	qualifier	“clean” — the shephek must be ritually clean ground
מַחֲנֶה (machaneh)	H4264	spatial reference	“the camp” — the shephek is outside it
שָׂרַף (saraph)	H8313	action at location	“burn” — what happens at the shephek

Word Family / Cognates¶

H8210 שָׁפַךְ (shaphak) — parent root verb: to pour out, spill forth, shed (115 occurrences). Overwhelmingly used of pouring out blood (50x co-occurrence with dam H1818) and divine wrath/fury (chemah H2534, 18x). The noun shephek takes the root’s “pouring out” action and nominalizes it as a place.
H8212 שׇׁפְכָה (shophkah) — a pipe or channel; membrum virile (Deut 23:1 only; also hapax). Another derivative of the same root, also denoting a conduit through which something pours.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong’s	Shared Translation	Key Difference
שָׁפַךְ (shaphak)	H8210	“poured out”	H8210 is the verb (to pour); H8211 is the place-noun (where pouring happens)
נָסַךְ (nasak)	H5258	“poured out”	nasak = to pour a libation or cast metal; shephek is a waste-disposal location, not a ritual pouring
יָצַק (yatsaq)	H3332	“poured out”	yatsaq = to pour (oil, metal, water) with emphasis on placement; shephek = the dumping ground
נָתַךְ (nathak)	H5413	“poured out”	nathak = to flow forth, melt down; shephek = a physical location, not a flowing action

Semantic Domain¶

Towns / Places (SDBH domain 001002009011)
Domain neighbors include: אַשְׁפֹּת (ashpoth, H830) “ash-heap, dung-hill” — the closest semantic neighbor, both denoting refuse disposal locations

LXX Mapping¶

No LXX alignment data found in the database for H8211. Given its hapax status and locative noun character, the LXX likely rendered the phrase periphrastically rather than with a single Greek equivalent.