Drop, Dropping
Drop, Dropping
To drop expresses a distilling or dripping of a fluid (Jdg 5:4; Pro 3:20; Son 5:5, Son 5:13; Joe 3:18; Amo 9:13; compare 1Sa 14:26, the honey dropped (margin a stream of honey)); Job 29:22 and Isa 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 (Pro 19:13; Pro 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 Ecc 10:18 (the Revised Version (British and American) leaketh).