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# רָעַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7491

**trickle** — used 5 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

trickle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7491/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

רָעַף: vb. trickle, drip [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7491/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. trickle, drip, synon. of נזל, II. ערף (cf. Arabic رَعَفَ flow (of blood), bleed (of the nose));— Impf. 3 mpl. יִרְעֲפוּ, of clouds Jb 36:28 (c. עֲלֵי pers.; ‖ יִזְּלוּ), c. acc. mat. טַל Pr 3:20; fig. מַעְגָּלֶיךָ יִרְעֲפוּן דָּ֑שֶׁן ψ 65:12 (i.e. fertilizing rain); subj. of moistened ground, נְאוֹת מִדְבָּר, v 13. Imv. mpl. הַרְעִיפוּ Is 45:8 trickle, O heavens, from above (fig.: ‖ יִזְּלוּ צֶדֶק).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they drip (2); drip down (1); they (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.28/#tree)

אֲשֶֽׁר־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י ׀ אָדָ֬ם רָֽב׃

*Word for word:* which they.flow \[the\].clouds they.drip on humankind numerous

*JPS 1917:* Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.

[Psalms 65:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.65.13/#tree)

יִ֭רְעֲפוּ נְא֣וֹת מִדְבָּ֑ר וְ֝גִ֗יל גְּבָע֥וֹת תַּחְגֹּֽרְנָה׃

*Word for word:* they.drip \[the\].pastures of.\[the\].wilderness and rejoicing \[the\].hills they.gird.on

*JPS 1917:* The pastures of the wilderness do drop; and the hills are girded with joy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7491.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7491/): 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).