# נָטַף (nataf)

Israeli respelling: na-taf. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5197. 14 Old Testament occurrences.

to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication, to fall in drops; figuratively, to speak by inspiration

King James renderings: drop(-ping), prophesy(-et).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nataf-h5197

## Occurrences

- [Judges 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/4) — LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds…
- [Job 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/22) — After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
- [Psalms 68:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/8) — The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
- [Proverbs 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/3) — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
- [Song of Solomon 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/4/11) — Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Leban…
- [Song of Solomon 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/5) — I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
- [Song of Solomon 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/13) — His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
- [Ezekiel 20:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/46) — Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
- [Ezekiel 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/2) — Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,
- [Joel 3:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/3/18) — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers…
- [Amos 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/16) — Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
- [Amos 9:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/13) — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the…
- [Micah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/6) — Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame.
- [Micah 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/2/11) — If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the pr…