Lexical Summary araph: to drip, drop Original Word: עָרַףTransliteration: araph Phonetic Spelling: (aw-raf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to drip, drop Meaning: to droop, to drip Strong's Concordance drop down A primitive root; to droop; hence, to drip -- drop (down). Brown-Driver-Briggs H6201. araph II. [עָרַף] verb drip, drop (compare Arabic lade out water with the hand (as with ladle), compare Phoenician ערפת portico (whence rain drips) see HoffmAbh. d. GGW xxxvi, May, 1889, 12 f.; compare also Arabic upper-room; ענן מערף Ecclus 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s)); — Qal Imperfect3masculine plural יַעַרְפוּטָֿ֑ל שָׁמָיו Deuteronomy 33:28 his heavens drop dew; figurative, of speech, intransitive, לִקְחִי כַּמָּטָר יַעֲרֹף 32:2 let my teaching drop like the rain ("" אִמְרָתִי כַּטַּל תִּזַּל). — compare רָעַף. |
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