זָרַק
zâraq · zaw-rak'
to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to sprinkle (fluid or solid particles)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest › what comes behind, the returning cycle
To cut, to sustain of the head, the highest of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָרַק above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- sprinkled5 · 14%
- shall sprinkle5 · 14%
- and sprinkled4 · 11%
- and sprinkle4 · 11%
- which he sprinkled2 · 6%
- and scatter2 · 6%
- sprinkle1 · 3%
- he sprinkled1 · 3%
- thereof shall he sprinkle1 · 3%
- that sprinkleth1 · 3%
- thou shalt sprinkle1 · 3%
- was not sprinkled1 · 3%
- hath not been sprinkled1 · 3%
- they sprinkled1 · 3%
- and they sprinkled1 · 3%
- of them, and strowed1 · 3%
- then will i sprinkle1 · 3%
- thereon, and to sprinkle1 · 3%
- are here and there1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.