Dripping
דֶּ֫לֶףStrong’s H1812deleph (de-leph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Deleph is the Hebrew word usually translated “dripping”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.”
Meaning
- A dropping, drippingof contentious wife (fig.)
How it's translated
- and a dripping 1
- a dripping 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
דֶּ֫לֶף deleph · dripping
1) a dropping, dripping 1a) of contentious wife (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dripping” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRIPPING, participle present
tense Falling or letting fall in drops.
All definitions and other forms of “dripping”
DRIPPING, noun
The fat which falls from meat in roasting; that which falls in drops.
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.