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STRONGS NUMBER H6201
Transliteration: araph
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-raf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to drip, drop
Meaning: to droop, to drip
Word 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.