zar.ziph denotes a dripping shower image in the plea that the ruler descend like rain.

The attested use presents a dripping shower as part of a rain comparison: Psalm 72:6 places the construct-form noun alongside the image of showers falling upon the land.

1. Dripping showers in a rain comparison · dominant

   In Psalm 72:6, the masculine singular construct form occurs in the comparison of the ruler's descent with rain; the APB renders the verse, “May he descend like rain upon the fleece, like showers that drip upon the land.”

   Psalm 72:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Psalm 72:6, the APB presents the rain image with “showers that drip upon the land,” though the translation does not align individual English words to the Hebrew form.