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title: עָרַף — drip · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָרַף (6201), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: drip. BDB 1906: vb. drip, drop. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָרַף

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«עָרַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drip** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 6201 · **BDB:** עָרַף²

### Glosses

may.it.drop (1); they.drop (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drip [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6201/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. drip, drop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6201/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drip, drop (cf. Arabic غَرَفَ lade out water with the hand (as with ladle) cf. Ph. ערפת portico (whence rain drips) v. HoffmAbh. d. GGW xxxvi. May, 1889, 12f.; cf. also غُرْفَةٌ upper-room; מערף ענן Ecclus 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s));— Impf. 3 mpl. שָׁמָיו יַעַרְפוּ־טָ֑ל Dt 33:28 his heavens drop dew; fig., of speech, intrans., יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָר לִקְחִי 32:2 let my teaching drop like the rain (‖ תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי).—Cf. רָעַף.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָרַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6201/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 33:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.28/)

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וַיִּשְׁכֹּן֩ יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל בֶּ֤טַח בָּדָד֙ עֵ֣ין יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ דָּגָ֣ן וְתִיר֑וֹשׁ אַף־שָׁמָ֖יו יַֽעַרְפוּטָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.has.dwelt Israel security alone the.spring of.Jacob to a.land of.grain and new.wine also heavens his they.drop dew

*JPS 1917:* And Israel dwelleth in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of corn and wine; yea, his heavens drop down dew.

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[Deuteronomy 32:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.2/)

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יַעֲרֹ֤ף כַּמָּטָר֙ לִקְחִ֔י תִּזַּ֥ל כַּטַּ֖ל אִמְרָתִ֑י כִּשְׂעִירִ֣ם עֲלֵי־דֶ֔שֶׁא וְכִרְבִיבִ֖ים עֲלֵי־עֵֽשֶׂב׃

*Word for word:* may.it.drop like the rain teaching my may.it.flow like the dew speech my like showers.of.rain on fresh.grass and like showers on vegetation

*JPS 1917:* My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

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