דֶּלֶף
deleph · H1812 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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dripping
The process where by drops of liquid fall down through a hole or crack and produce an irritating sound
ExamplesProverbs 19:13 A foolish son is destruction to his father, And the quarrels of a wife are a constant dripping.
Proverbs 27:15 A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- טָרַדto continue 2
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שָׁוָהto be alike 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִדְיָןstrife 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מָטַר mâṭar · H4306 · rain
- Both refer to water falling from above; מָטָר is the general term for rain as a meteorological phenomenon, while דֶּלֶף specifically denotes the continuous dripping action (particularly in the proverbial context of a leaky roof). They share the semantic field of descending water but differ in scale and context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Impact002001001024
- דֶּלֶף names the dripping itself, the steady, wearing drip of water, used alongside its related verb in the proverb comparing a quarrelsome spouse to a continual leak.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1812. deleph דֶּ֫לֶף noun masculine a dropping (of rain, compare WetzstZPV xiv. 1891,…
דֶּ֫לֶף noun masculine a dropping (of rain, compare WetzstZPV xiv. 1891, 5), figurative אִשָּׁה מִדְיְנֵי טֹרֵד דֶּלֶף Pro 19:13 etc.; ׳ד נִשְׁתָּֽוָהּ׃ מִדְוָ֯נִים וְאֵשֶׁת סַגְרִ֑יר בְּיוֺם טוֺרֵד Pro 27:15.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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