'Dropping' in the Bible
If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;
You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.
My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.
Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.
And they gave answer, We will gladly give them. So they put down a robe, every man dropping into it the ear-rings he had taken.
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.
They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.
For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.
I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;
How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.
And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.
As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts.
He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.
He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.
And being in agony [deeply distressed and anguished; almost to the point of death], He prayed more intently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down on the ground.
and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.