Dict: smith - SOP

smith:

SOP - S>@ - In eastern lands where our table utensils are unknown, the meat, with the broth, is brought upon the table in a large dish, and is eaten usually by means of pieces of bread clipped into the common dish. The bread so dipped is called. "It was such a piece of bread a sop dipped in broth that Jesus gave to Judas, kjv@John:13:26) and again, in kjv@Matthew:26:23 It is said "he that dippeth his hand with me in the dish," i.e. to make a sop by dipping a piece of bread into the central dish.

SOPATER - S>@ - (saviour of his father), son or Pyrrhus or Berea, was one of the companions of St. Paul on his return from Greece into Asia. kjv@Acts:20:4) (A.D. 55.)

SOPHERETH - S>@ - (writing). "The children of Sophereth" were a family who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel among the descendants of Solomon’s servants. kjv@Ezra:2:55; kjv@Nehemiah:7:57) (B.C. before 536.)