Strong's #5197: nataph (pronounced naw-taf')

a primitive root; to ooze, i.e. distil gradually; by implication, to fall in drops; figuratively, to speak by inspiration:--drop(-ping), prophesy(-et).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâṭaph

1) to drop, drip, distil, prophesy, preach, discourse

1a) (Qal) to drop, drip

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to drip

1b2) to drop (prophecy)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 18 times:

 

Judges 5:4: "of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also"
Judges 5:4: "and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water."
Job 29:22: "my words they spoke not again and my speech dropped upon"
Psalms 68:8: "shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai"
Proverbs 5:3: "For the lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:"
Song of Solomon 4:11: "Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue;"
Song of Solomon 5:5: "to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh,"
Song of Solomon 5:13: "flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh."
Ezekiel 20:46: "thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against"
Ezekiel 21:2: "thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against"
Joel 3:18: "in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk,"
Amos 7:16: "not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac."
Amos 9:13: "him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt."
Micah 2:6: " Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take"
Micah 2:6: "Prophesy ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take"
Micah 2:6: "ye not, say they to them that prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, that they shall not take shame."
Micah 2:11: "in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet"
Micah 2:11: "unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people."