To drip
דָּלַףStrong’s H1811dalaph (da-laph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dalaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has wept”, “it weeps” and “it leaks”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.”
Meaning
- To drop, drip(Qal)
How it's translated
- it has wept 1
- it weeps 1
- it leaks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
דָּלַף dalaph · to drip
1) to drop, drip 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to leak 1a2) to weep (of tears)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drip” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRIP, verb intransitive
[G.]
- To fall in drops; as, water drips from eaves.
All definitions and other forms of “drip”
DRIP, verb transitive
To let fall in drops.
DRIP, noun
- A falling in drops, or that which falls in drops.
- The edge of a roof; the eaves; a large flat member of the cornice.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.