| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. 2. (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 3. (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. 4. (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. 5. (v. t.) To pierce with saps. 6. (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. 7. (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. 8. (n.) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. | Multi-Version Concordance Sap (6 Occurrences) Romans 11:17 And if some of the branches have been pruned away, and you, although you were but a wild olive, have been grafted in among them and have become a sharer with others in the rich sap of the root of the olive tree, (WEY NIV) Job 8:16 He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden; (DBY) Psalms 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. (Root in WEB JPS NIV) Psalms 92:14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV) Psalms 104:16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; (KJV WBS) Hosea 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it. (See NIV) |