II. [עָרַף] verb drip, drop (compare Arabic lade out water with the hand (as with ladle), compare Phoenician ערפת portico (whence rain drips) see Hoffm^{Abh. d. GGW xxxvi, May, 1889, 12 f.}; compare also Arabic upper-room; מערף ענן Ecclus 43:22 the dropping of a cloud, Assyrian irpu, irpitu, cloud(s)); —

Qal Imperfect3masculine plural שָׁמָיו יַעַרְפוּטָֿ֑ל Deuteronomy 33:28 his heavens drop dew; figurative, of speech, intransitive, יַעֲרֹף כַּמָּטָר לִקְחִי Deuteronomy 32:2 let my teaching drop like the rain ("" תִּזַּל כַּטַּל אִמְרָתִי). — compare רָעַף.