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King James Dictionary
• Drops
• Dropping
• Dropped
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Drop Down Dew, Ye Heavens!
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Drop
Wilson's Bible Types
• Drop
Webster Dictionary
• Toe Drop
• Rupert's Drop
• Knock-Out Drops
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Black Drop
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Drop, Dropping
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Drops, Festival of the
Lexicons
• ܫܶܠܬ݂ܳܐ
• θρόμβος
• אֵגֶל
• דָּלַף , דָּלַף
• דֶּלֶף
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"To drop" expresses a "distilling" or "dripping" of a fluid (Judges 5:4; Proverbs 3:20; Song of Solomon 5:5 , Song of Solomon 5:13; Joel 3:18; Amos 9:13; compare 1 Samuel 14:26 , "the honey dropped" (margin "a stream of honey")); Job 29:22 and Isaiah 45:8 read "distil" (the King James Version "drop"). The continuous "droppings" of rain through a leaking roof (roofs were usually made of clay in Palestine, and always liable to cracks and leakage) on a "very rainy day" is compared to a contentious wife ( Proverbs 19:13; Proverbs 27:15 ); "What is described is the irritating, unceasing, sound of the fall, drop after drop, of water through the chinks in the roof" (Plumptre, in the place cited); compare also the King James Version Ecclesiastes 10:18 (the Revised Version (British and American) "leaketh").