Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6201 - עָרַף araph (to drip)

Original Word:	עָרַף
Transliteration:	araph
Definition:	to drip, drop
Part of Speech:	Verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(aw-raf')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

drop down

A primitive root; to droop; hence, to drip -- drop (down).

Englishman's Concordance

1) to drop, drip
1a) (Qal) to drop, trickle
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1701

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [עָרַף] verbdrip, drop (compare Arabic

lade out water with the hand (as with ladle), compare Phoenician ערפתportico (whence rain drips) see Hoffm^{Abh. d. GGW xxxvi, May, 1889, 12 f.}; compare also Arabic

upper-room; מערף ענן Ecclus 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s)); —

QalImperfect3masculine plural שָׁמָיו יַעַרְפוּטָֿ֑לDeuteronomy 33:28his heavens drop dew; figurative, of speech, intransitive, יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָרלִקְחִיDeuteronomy 32:2let my teaching drop like the rain ("" תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי). — compare רָעַף.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6201. עָרַף (araph) — 2 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 32:2
HEB: יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י
NAS: Let my teaching drop as the rain,
KJV: My doctrine shall drop as the rain,
INT:drop as the rain my teaching

Deuteronomy 33:28
HEB:אַף־ שָׁמָ֖יו יַ֥עַרְפוּ טָֽל׃
NAS: His heavens also drop down dew.
KJV: also his heavens shall drop down dew.
INT: also his heavens drop dew

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