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# דָּלַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1811

**drop** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּלַף: vb. drop, drip weeps [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drop, drip (WisdLt.) (NH id. (זלף more common), דֶּלֶף trough, etc., Aramaic דְּלַף, ܕܠܰܦ, drip)— Pf. 3 fs. אֶל־אֱלוֹהַּ דָּֽלְפָה עֵינִי Jb 16:20 i.e. weeps (drops in tears); דָּֽלְפָה נַפְשִׁי מִתּוּגָה ψ 119:28 i.e. weeps (Itself away Che cf. De); Impf. בְּשִׁפְלוּת יָדַיִם יִדְלֹף הַבָּֽיִת׃ Ec 10:18 the house drips, i.e. leaks, because cracks are not mended.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it has wept (1); it leaks (1); it weeps (1).

## In the verses

[Job 16:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.20/#tree)

מְלִיצַ֥י רֵעָ֑י אֶל־אֱ֝ל֗וֹהַ דָּלְפָ֥ה עֵינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* \[are\].mocking me companions my to God it.has.wept eye my

*JPS 1917:* Mine inward thoughts are my intercessors, mine eye poureth out tears unto God;

[Psalms 119:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.28/#tree)

דָּלְפָ֣ה נַ֭פְשִׁי מִתּוּגָ֑ה קַ֝יְּמֵ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* it.weeps self my from grief strengthen me according to your.word

*JPS 1917:* My soul melteth away for heaviness; sustain me according unto Thy word.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1811.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1811/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).