H5198a H5198a
drops (of water) — small amounts of liquid falling or condensed
This noun appears in Job's description of the water cycle, where God gathers drops of water that distill as rain. The word emphasizes smallness and plurality—individual droplets that collectively form rain. It's part of Job's sustained argument about divine wisdom in nature: God manages the minutest details of weather, gathering countless drops and transforming them into life-giving precipitation. The term captures the building blocks of meteorological phenomena.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A masculine plural construct noun meaning 'drops of (water)' in Job 36:27. Elihu describes how God 'draws up the drops of water' (or 'gathers the water drops'), which then distill as rain from his mist. The word emphasizes the individual small droplets that constitute moisture before condensing into rain. This is part of Elihu's lengthy discourse on God's wisdom displayed in natural processes. The plural form suggests numerous tiny drops, the discrete units that aggregate into storms. 1×
AR["قَطَراتِ"]·ben["ফোঁটা"]·DE["[נטפי]"]·EN["drops-of-"]·FR["נטפי"]·heb["טיפות"]·HI["बूंदों-की"]·ID["tetesan-tetesan-"]·IT["drops-di"]·jav["tetes-ipun"]·KO["물-의-방울들을"]·PT["gotas-de-"]·RU["капли-"]·ES["gotas-de-"]·SW["matone-ya"]·TR["damlaları-"]·urd["قطروں کو"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. [נָטָף] n.m. drop;—נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם Jb 36:27 (‖ מָטָר, rain).