H7447a H7447a
drops, small quantities of liquid (specifically dew)
This plural construct form appears in Song of Songs 5:2, where the beloved's hair is described as wet with 'drops of the night'—that is, night dew. The poetic image captures the beloved arriving after dark, his hair glistening with moisture from the night air. Paired with 'tal' (dew), this word emphasizes the small, individual droplets rather than generalized wetness. The Spanish 'gotas' and French 'gouttes' both preserve the sense of discrete drops.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Individual droplets of dew, used in Song of Songs 5:2 to create an intimate, sensory image of the beloved standing outside at night, his hair wet from exposure to the damp air. The construct phrase 'drops of night' functions poetically to suggest both the lateness of the hour and the physical evidence of his nighttime journey to reach the woman's door. 1×
AR["رِسِيسِي"]·ben["-ফোঁটায়"]·DE["[רסיסי]"]·EN["drops-of"]·FR["des-gouttes"]·heb["רסיסי"]·HI["बूँदों-से"]·ID["tetesan-tetesan"]·IT["drops-of"]·jav["tetesan"]·KO["밤-의-물방울들-로"]·PT["de-gotas-de"]·RU["каплями"]·ES["gotas-de"]·SW["matone"]·TR["damlalari"]·urd["بوندوں-سے"]
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. [רָסִיס] n.[m.] drop (of dew);—pl. cstr. רְסִיסֵי לָ֑יְלָה Ct 5:2 (‖ טַל).