Hebrew verb · H5197
נָטַף
nataphnaw-taf'
to drip/prophesy
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâṭaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5197is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5197
to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication, to fall in drops; figuratively, to speak by inspiration
The King James renders it: drop(-ping), prophesy(-et).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nataph is rendered "to drip/prophesy". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Micah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 5:4O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
Judges 5:4נָטָ֑פוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they dropped3
- and prophesy2
- they drip2
- and they will drip1
- dripping1
- I will prophesy1
- it dropped1
- prophesier of1
- they dripped1
- they prophesy1
- they will drip1
- they will prophesy1
and 2 more, 18 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהַטֵּ֖ף2
- אַטִּ֣ף1
- וְהִטִּ֤יפוּ1
- יַטִּיפ֑וּן1
- יִטְּפ֧וּ1
- יַטִּ֣פוּ1
- מַטִּ֖יף1
- נָטְפוּ֮1
- נָ֥טְפוּ1
- נָטָ֑פוּ1
- נָֽטְפוּ־1
- נֹטְפ֖וֹת1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural4HVqp3cp
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HC/Vhv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural2HVqi3fp
- Hc/Vhq3cp1Hc/Vhq3cp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural1HVhi2mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhi2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nun1HVhi3mp/Sn
- verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HVhrmsc
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqi3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVqi3mp
Judges
two uses
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- נָטָ֑פוּnatafuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they dropped
- נָ֥טְפוּnatefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they dropped
Job
one use
After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
- תִּטֹּ֥ףtitofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it dropped
Psalms
one use
the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
- נָטְפוּ֮natefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they dropped
Proverbs
one use
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- תִּ֭טֹּפְנָהtitofenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they drip
Song of Solomon
three uses
Your lips, my bride, drip sweetness like the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the aroma of Lebanon.
- תִּטֹּ֥פְנָהtitofenahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they drip
I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
- נָֽטְפוּ־natefu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they dripped
His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are like lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
- נֹטְפ֖וֹתnotefotverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: dripping
Ezekiel
two uses
“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
- וְהַטֵּ֖ףvehatefconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and prophesy
“Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
- וְהַטֵּ֖ףvehatefconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and prophesy
Joel
one use
And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- יִטְּפ֧וּyitefuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will drip
Amos
two uses
Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
- תַטִּ֖יףtatifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must prophesy
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow.
- וְהִטִּ֤יפוּvehitifuHc/Vhq3cptagged: and they will drip
Micah
five uses
“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”
- תַּטִּ֖פוּtatifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you prophesy
- יַטִּיפ֑וּןyatifunverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they prophesy
- יַטִּ֣פוּyatifuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will prophesy
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
- אַטִּ֣ףʾatifverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will prophesy
- מַטִּ֖יףmatifverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: prophesier of
The letters
Gematria 139· 859 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.