דָּלַף dâlaph — to drip
Translated in the KJV as drop through, melt, pour out.
a primitive root; to drip; by implication, to weep.
dâlaph in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
דָּלְפָ֥ה Job 16:20 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
דָּלְפָ֣ה Ps 119:28 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person feminine singular
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
יִדְלֹ֥ף Eccl 10:18 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine singular
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›