To drop
עָרַףStrong’s H6201araph (a-raph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Araph is the Hebrew word usually translated “may it drop” and “drop”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:”
Meaning
- To drop, drip(Qal) to drop, trickle
How it's translated
- may it drop 1
- they drop 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עָרַף araph · to drop
1) to drop, drip 1a) (Qal) to drop, trickle
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.