nataf · drip, drop

What it means

nataf (נָטַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drip, drop”.

Fall drop by drop. Figuratively, speak a message (Micah 2:6).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To let fall drop by drop, like rain or honey.
2. To speak as a prophet.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• drip ×10
• dripped ×4
• dripping ×1
• dropped ×1
• one who drips words ×1
• preach ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Joel×1
• Amos×2
• Micah×5

• Judges 5:4

  YHWH, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, the clouds also dripped water.

• Job 29:22

  After my word they did not reply, and upon them dropped my speech.

• Psalms 68:8

  the earth trembled, the heavens also dripped before Elohim, this Sinai, before Elohim, the Elohim of Israel.

• Proverbs 5:3

  For the lips of the strange woman drip honey from the comb, and smoother than oil is her palate;

• Song of Songs 4:11

  Your lips drip honeycomb, bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 5:5

  I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped myrrh, and my fingers myrrh that flows, on the handles of the bolt.

• Song of Songs 5:13

  His cheeks are like a garden bed of balsam, towers of aromas; his lips are lilies, dripping myrrh that flows.

• Ezekiel 20:46

  “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and let your word drip toward the southland, and prophesy against the forest of the field of the Negev.

• Ezekiel 21:2

  “Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and let your word drip toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the ground of Israel.

• Joel 3:18

  And it will happen on that day that the mountains will drip sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah will run with water; and a spring will go out from the house of YHWH and water the wadi of the Acacias.

• Amos 7:16

  And now, hear the word of YHWH. You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

• Amos 9:13

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the one who treads grapes the one who scatters the seed; and the mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will melt.

• Micah 2:6

  “Do not drip words,” they drip words; “one must not drip words about these things; humiliations will not depart.”

• Micah 2:11

  If a man walking in wind and falsehood should lie: ‘I will drip words to you of wine and of intoxicating drink,’ he would be the one who drips words for this people.

And 4 more times.