For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
The 1611 reading
For hee maketh small the drops of water: they powre downe raine according to the vapour thereof:
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Small globules or falling portions of liquid. Sense 2: Lets liquid fall in such portions.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Job 36:27
Complete exact-word concordance
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
For hee maketh small the drops of water: they powre downe raine according to the vapour thereof:
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Hath the raine a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
¶ 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.
¶ 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.
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.
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
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.