Bible Dictionaries
Sop
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
a diminutive of psomos, "a morsel," denotes "a fragment, a sop" (akin to psomizo; see FEED), John 13:26 (twice),27,30. It had no connection with the modern meaning of "sop," something given to pacify (as in the classical expression "a sop to Cerberus").
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Sop'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/s/sop.html. 1940.