Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1811 - דָּלַף dalaph (to drip)

Original Word:	דָּלַף
Transliteration:	dalaph
Definition:	to drip, drop
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(daw-laf')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

drop through, melt, pour out

A primitive root; to drip; by implication, to weep -- drop through, melt, pour out.

Englishman's Concordance

1) to drop, drip
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to leak
1a2) to weep (of tears)
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 434

Brown-Driver-Briggs

דָּלַףverbdrop, drip (Wisdom Literature.) (Late Hebrew id. (זלף more common), דֶּלֶףthrough, etc., Aramaic דְּלַף,

, drip) —

QalPerfect3feminine singular אֶלאֱֿלוֺהַּ דָּֽלְפָה עֵינִיJob 16:20 i.e. weeps (drops in tears); דָּֽלְפָה נַפְשִׁימִתּוּגָהPsalm 119:28 i.e. weeps (itself away Che compare De); Imperfectבְּשִׁפְלוּת יָדַיִם יִדְלֹף הַבָּֽיִת׃Ecclesiastes 10:18the house drips, i.e. leaks, because cracks are not mended.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1811. דָּלַף (dalaph) — 3 Occurrences

Job 16:20
HEB:אֶל־ אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃
NAS: are my scoffers; My eye weeps to God.
KJV: me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.
INT: to God weeps my eye

Psalm 119:28
HEB: דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה
NAS: My soul weeps because of grief;
KJV: My soul melteth for heaviness:
INT:weeps my soul of grief

Ecclesiastes 10:18
HEB:וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם יִדְלֹ֥ף הַבָּֽיִת׃
NAS: and through slackness the house leaks.
KJV: the house droppeth through.
INT: idleness of the hands leaks the house

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