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drops

Meaning of “drops”

Sense 1: Small globules or falling portions of liquid. Sense 2: Lets liquid fall in such portions.

Definition sources

KJV context and cross-referencesWebster 1828
4 occurrences4 verses3 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Job 36:27

Complete exact-word concordance

Every verse containing “drops”

KJV PCE
Song of Solomon 5:2
¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Song of Solomon 5:2 · retained source text

¶ I sleepe, but my heart waketh: it is the voyce of my beloued that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for my head is filled with dewe, and my lockes with the drops of the night.

Luke 22:44
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Luke 22:44 · retained source text

And being in an agonie, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling downe to the ground.

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Historical English dictionary sources

Historical definitions

To pour or let fall in small portions or globules, as a fluid; to distill. […] To distill; to fall in small portions, globules or drops as a liquid.

volume 1, leaf 637, column 3 (entry starts at OCR line 46)