Sprout
King James Dictionary [1]
1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant to germinate to push out new shoots. A grain that sprouts in ordinary temperature in ten days, may by an augmentation of heat be made to sprout in forty eight hours. The stumps of trees often sprout, and produce a new forest. Potatoes will sprout and produce a crop, although pared and deprived all their buds or eyes. 2. To shoot into ramifications.
Vitriol is apt to sprout with moisture.
3. To grow, like shoots of plants.
And on the ashes sprouting plumes appear.
Sprout, n.
1. The shoot of a plant a shoot from the seed or from the stump or from the root of a plant or tree. The sprouts of the cane, in Jamaica are called ratoons. 2. A shoot from the end of a branch. The young shoots of shrubs are called sprouts, and in the forest often furnish browse of cattle.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
(2): ( v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
(3): ( v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
(4): ( v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
(5): ( v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
(6): ( v. t.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Job 14:7 (b) This is a word of encouragement to those who fall or fail in life. It means that that one may revive and produce real fruit and blessing following the failure, A man may be bankrupt in one business, and then find another in which he is very greatly successful.
