Drop
נָטָףStrong’s H5198nataph (na-taph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nataph is the Hebrew word usually translated “stacte” and “drops of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:”
Meaning
- Drop
- Gum, drops of stactean aromatic gum resin of a shrub used in incense
How it's translated
- stacte 1
- drops of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
נָטָף nataph · drop
drop
נָטָף nataph · gum
1) gum, drops of stacte 1a) an aromatic gum resin of a shrub used in incense
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DROP, noun
[G.]
- A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall; a small portion of water falling in rain; as a drop of water; a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.
- A diamond hanging from the ear; an earring; something hanging in the form of a drop
- A very small quantity of liquor; as, he had not drank a drop
- The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.
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.