the Fifth Week of Lent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #1811 - דָּלַף
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- to drop, drip
- (Qal)
- to leak
- to weep (of tears)
- (Qal)
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
2103) pld (דלפ DLP) AC: Drip CO: Drop AB: ?: (eng: drip - with the exchange of the r and l)
V) pld (דלפ DLP) - Drip: KJV (3): (vf: Paal) pour, melt, crop - Strongs: H1811 (דָּלַף)
Nm) pld (דלפ DLP) - Drip: KJV (2): dropping - Strongs: H1812 (דֶּלֶף)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
, drip) — Qal Perfect 3 feminine singular אֶלאֱֿלוֺהַּ דָּֽלְפָה עֵינִי Job 16:20i.e. weeps ( drops in tears); דָּֽלְפָה נַפְשִׁימִתּוּגָה Psalm 119:28i.e. weeps (itself away Che compare De); Imperfect בְּשִׁפְלוּת יָדַיִם יִדְלֹף הַבָּֽיִת׃ Ecclesiastes 10:18 the house drips, i.e. leaks, because cracks are not mended.
דָּלַף fut. יִדְלֹף
(1) to drop, to drip, used of a house, Ecclesiastes 10:18, יִדְלֹף הַבַּיִת “the house drops,” lets in rain through the chinks in the roof.
(2) to shed tears, to weep, used of the eye. Job 16:20, אֶל־אֱלֹוהַּ דָּֽלְפָה עֵינִי “my eye sheds tears to God.” Psalms 119:28, דָּֽלְפָה נַפְשִׁי “my soul weeps.” Compare נֶפֶשׁ No. 3. (Aram. id.; Arab. دلف to go slowly, to creep; VII. to be poured out, to flow; comp. דָּבַב). Hence
