שֶׁרֶשׁsheresh
שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ: root
Pronunciation: sheh'-resh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8328
Meanings
1. root, of people under figure of tree, involving firmness, permanence (Amos 2:9; Hosea 9:16; Hosea 14:6)
2. literally root of tree or shrub (Jeremiah 17:8; Ezekiel 31:7; Isaiah 53:2)
3. root, figurative = lowest stratum (Job 28:9; Job 36:30; Job 13:27)
: root (Daniel 4:12; Daniel 4:20; Daniel 4:23)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 33 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 29:18 I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.
- Judges 5:14 They came down from Ephraim— a land that once belonged to the Amalekites; they followed you, Benjamin, with your troops. From Makir the commanders marched down; from Zebulun came those who carry a commander’s staff.
- 2 Kings 19:30 And you who are left in Judah, who have escaped the ravages of the siege, will put roots down in your own soil and will grow up and flourish.
- Job 8:17 Its roots grow down through a pile of stones; it takes hold on a bed of rocks.
- Job 13:27 You put my feet in stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.
- Job 14:8 Though its roots have grown old in the earth and its stump decays,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).