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Strong's #6201 - עָרַף
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1) to drop, drip
1a) (Qal) to drop, trickle
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2909) prg (גהרפ GhRP) AC: Drop CO: Cloud AB: ?: The dropping of rain from clouds. [from: rc- dark clouds]
V) prg (גהרפ GhRP) - Drop: To drop down as rain from the clouds. KJV (2): (vf: Paal) drop - Strongs: H6201 (עָרַף)
bm) pirg (גהריפ GhRYP) - Clouds: As dark rain clouds. KJV (1): heaven - Strongs: H6183 (עֲרִיפִים)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
lade out water with the hand (as with ladle), compare Phoenician ערפת portico (whence rain drips) see Hoffm Abh. d. GGW xxxvi, May, 1889,12f.; compare also Arabic 
upper-room; מערף ענן Sirach 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s)); — Qal Imperfect 3 masculine plural שָׁמָיו יַעַרְפוּטָֿ֑ל Deuteronomy 33:28 his heavens drop dew; figurative, of speech, intransitive, יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָרלִקְחִי Deuteronomy 32:2 let my teaching drop like the rain ("" תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי). — compare רָעַף.
עָרַף i.q. רָעַף to drop down (tropfen, to drop; compare דָּלַף, זָלַף, the last syllable of which is identical), Deuteronomy 33:28 metaph. used of speech, Deuteronomy 32:2.
Derivative, עֲרִיפִים.
II.
עָרַף
(1) originally, as I suppose, to pluck, to seize, to pull; Germ. raufen, a sense which is found in the primary syllable רף, רב, compare רָפָא, רִיב, and, with a palatal or guttural letter added at the beginning, גָּרַף, חָרַף, עָרַף. Hence عُرْفُ the mane of a horse (so called from its being pulled), غَرَفَ to pull out the forelock of a horse, and Hebr. עֹרֶף neck, prob. so called from mane. (In the Indo-Germanic languages with this agree, rapio, carpo, raffen, raufen. The signification of mane and top are found in the Gr. λόφος, mane; hence, neck, back, κορυφή, κόρυμβος, κορύμβη, top.)
(2) denom. from עֹרֶף to break the neck of an animal, Exodus 13:13, 34:20 Deuteronomy 21:4, Deuteronomy 21:6; Isaiah 66:3. Figuratively, to overthrow, to destroy altars, Hosea 10:2.
