Drop
רָסִיסStrong’s H7447rasis (ra-sis)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rasis is the Hebrew word usually translated “dewdrops of” and “fragments”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Drop (of dew)
- Fragment
How it's translated
- dewdrops of 1
- fragments 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
- Amos 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רָסִיס rasis · drop
drop (of dew)
רָסִיס rasis · fragment
fragment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.