Drop
θρόμβοςStrong’s G2361thrombos
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Thrombos is the Greek word usually translated “great drops”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
Usually translated “great drops”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- great drops 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Greek dictionary
θρόμβος thrombos · drop
θρόμβος, -ου, ὁ (τρέφω, in primary sense to thicken), a lump, a clot of blood (DCG, ii, 685b): αἵματος, Luk.22:44 (WH, R, mg. omit the passage, see WH, App., 64 ff.).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DROP, noun
[G.]
- A small portion of any fluid in a spherical form, which falls at once from any body, or a globule of any fluid which is pendent, as if about to fall; a small portion of water falling in rain; as a drop of water; a drop of blood; a drop of laudanum.
- A diamond hanging from the ear; an earring; something hanging in the form of a drop
- A very small quantity of liquor; as, he had not drank a drop
- The part of a gallows which sustains the criminal before he is executed, and which is suddenly dropped.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.