Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprout.

Multi-Version Concordance Sprouting (4 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 29:23 and that the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, and a burning, that (See NIV) 2 Kings 19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up. (See NIV) Isaiah 37:27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste. (See NIV) Ezekiel 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof. (See JPS DBY NAS RSV)