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“To drop†expresses a “distilling†or “dripping†of a fluid (; ; , ; ; ; compare , “the honey dropped†(margin “a stream of honeyâ€)); and read “distil†(the King James Version “dropâ€). The continuous “droppings†of rain through a leaking roof (roofs were usually made of clay in Palestine, and always liable to cracks and leakage) on a “very rainy day†is compared to a contentious wife (; ); “What is described is the irritating, unceasing, sound of the fall, drop after drop, of water through the chinks in the roof†(Plumptre, in the place cited); compare also the King James Version (the Revised Version (British and American) “leakethâ€).