To drip
רָעַףStrong’s H7491raaph (ra-aph)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Raaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “drip”, “dripped” and “drip down”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.”
Meaning
- To trickle, drip(Qal) to trickle, drip · (Hiphil) to trickle
How it's translated
- they drip 3
- they dripped 1
- drip down 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 65:11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
- Psalms 65:12They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
- Proverbs 3:20By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
- Isaiah 45:8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Hebrew dictionary
רָעַף raaph · to drip
1) to trickle, drip 1a) (Qal) to trickle, drip 1b) (Hiphil) to trickle
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.