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# זַרְזִיף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2222

**drop** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2222/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַרְזִיף²: drop, dripping [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2222/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drop, dripping (NH id.; on form (if genuine) cf. NöM 85, NS 191)—ψ 72:6 כִּרְבִיבִים ז׳ אָ֑רֶץ as showers, a dripping of the earth, but v. foregoing.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dropping (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/#tree)

יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.come.down like rain on mown.grass like showers dropping of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2222/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).