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title: דָּלַף — drop · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּלַף (1811), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: drop. BDB 1906: vb. drop, drip weeps. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּלַף

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«דָּלַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drop** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1811 · **BDB:** דָּלַף

### Glosses

it.has.wept (1); it.leaks (1); it.weeps (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. drop, drip weeps [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drop, drip (WisdLt.) (NH id. (זלף more common), דֶּלֶף trough, etc., Aramaic דְּלַף, ܕܠܰܦ, drip)— Pf. 3 fs. אֶל־אֱלוֹהַּ דָּֽלְפָה עֵינִי Jb 16:20 i.e. weeps (drops in tears); דָּֽלְפָה נַפְשִׁי מִתּוּגָה ψ 119:28 i.e. weeps (Itself away Che cf. De); Impf. בְּשִׁפְלוּת יָדַיִם יִדְלֹף הַבָּֽיִת׃ Ec 10:18 the house drips, i.e. leaks, because cracks are not mended.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּלַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 16:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.20/)

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מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].mocking me companions my to God it.has.wept eye my

*JPS 1917:* Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

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[Psalms 119:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.28/)

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דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* it.weeps self my from grief strengthen me according to your.word

*JPS 1917:* My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.

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