sop

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Giving the sop was a common act, and I have no doubt Jesus had often given it to John and Peter and the other disciples, as a kindly act, when they were eating together Im Hanna is fixing the lamp.

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  1. transitive verb To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate.
  2. transitive verb To take up by absorption: sop up water with a paper towel.
  3. noun A piece of food soaked or dipped in a liquid.

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  1. From Middle English soppe, bread dipped in liquid, from Old English sopp- (in soppcuppe, cup for dipping bread in); see seuə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Anglo-Saxon *soppa, *soppe (found only in comp. sōp-cuppa, and in the verb) = Middle Dutch soppe, sope, sop, Dutch sop, broth, sop, = Middle Low German Low German soppe = Old High German sopha, soffa, Middle High German sophe, suppe, German suppe = Swedish soppa (cf. Italian zuppa, sop, soaked bread, = Spanish Portuguese sopa = French soupe, soup, later English soup: see soup) = Icelandic soppa, a sop (soppa af vīni, a sop in wine), = Swedish soppa, broth, soup; from the strong verb, Anglo-Saxon sūpan (past participle sopen), etc., sup: see sup. Sop is thus ult. a doublet of soupand sup, n. Cf. also sip.
  2. Early modern English soppe, from Middle English *soppen, from Anglo-Saxon *soppian, soppigan, sop (= Dutch soppen = Swedish supa = Danish suppe, sop), a secondary form of sūpan (past participle sopen), sup: see sop, n., and sup.
 

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