Bible Names

Shophach: meaning of the name

Shophach means “pouring out.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Shophach in Hebrew and Greek

שׁוֹפָךְ H7780

Shôwphâk (sho-fawk') — Shophak, a Syrian

from H8210 (שָׁפַךְ); poured;

Shophach in Scripture

“Shophach” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:16

    And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:18

    But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.