To drip/prophesy
נָטַףStrong’s H5197nataph (na-taph)
Appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nataph is the Hebrew word usually translated “dropped”, “drip” and “prophesy”. It appears in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
“LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.”
Meaning
- To drop, drip, distil, prophesy, preach, discourse(Qal) to drop, drip · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- they dropped 3
- they drip 2
- and prophesy 2
- it dropped 1
- they dripped 1
- dripping 1
- they will drip 1
- you must prophesy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 3
- Ezekiel 2
- Amos 2
- Micah 2
- Judges 1
- Job 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 29:22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
- Psalms 68:8The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- Song of Solomon 4:11Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
- Song of Solomon 5:13His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
Hebrew dictionary
נָטַף nataph · to drip/prophesy
1) to drop, drip, distil, prophesy, preach, discourse 1a) (Qal) to drop, drip 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to drip 1b2) to drop (prophecy)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dropped” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DROPPED, participle passive
Let fall; distilled; laid aside; dismissed; let go; suffered to subside; sprinkled or variegated.
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.