Lexical Definition

‎עָרַף‎ ʻâraph (aw-raf') to drop ^H:V
a primitive root

drop (down).

• to droop
• hence, to drip

1) to drop, drip
1a) (Qal) to drop, trickle

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎עָרַף‎] verb drip, drop (compare Arabic lade out water with the hand (as with ladle), compare Phoenician ‎ערפת‎ portico (whence rain drips) see Hoffm^{Abh. d. GGW xxxvi, May, 1889, 12 f.}; compare also Arabic upper-room; ‎מערף ענן‎ Eccl 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s)); —

Qal Imperfect 3 masculine plural ‎שָׁמָיו יַעַרְפוּטָֿ֑ל‎ Deut 33:28 his heavens drop dew; figurative, of speech, intransitive, ‎יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָר‎ ‎לִקְחִי‎ Deut 32:2 let my teaching drop like the rain (|| ‎תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי‎). — compare ‎רָעַף‎.

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