שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ

Deuteronomy 29:18 שֹׁ֛רֶשׁ a root

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

Here: A root is hidden underground and starts small, but it is the source of everything that grows from it. It pictures the disloyal person or group, and the hidden turning of the heart, before the results show.

Judges 5:14 שָׁרְשָׁם֙ root their

Some came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.

2 Kings 19:30 שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ a root

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Job 8:17 שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו roots its

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

Job 13:27 שָׁרְשֵׁ֥י [the] roots of

You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Job 14:8 שָׁרְשׁ֑וֹ root its

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

Job 18:16 שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו roots his

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Here: The roots of the tree that stands for the wicked man. Roots are what keep a tree alive and let it grow back, and in Hebrew imagery they also stand for a person's footing and lineage.

Job 19:28 וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ and [the] root of

If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’

Job 28:9 מִשֹּׁ֣רֶשׁ from [the] root

The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

Job 29:19 שָׁרְשִׁ֣י root my

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Job 30:4 וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ and [the] root of

They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Job 36:30 וְשָׁרְשֵׁ֖י and [the] roots of

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

Psalm 80:9 שָׁ֝רָשֶׁ֗יהָ roots its

You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.

Proverbs 12:3 וְשֹׁ֥רֶשׁ and [the] root of

A man cannot be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

Here: Here the image changes from a building to a tree. The root is the hidden part that anchors the plant and keeps it alive. It can also suggest a family line that lives on. The 'and' here works as 'but'.

Proverbs 12:12 וְשֹׁ֖רֶשׁ and [the] root of

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Here: The 'and' here works as 'but', marking the contrast. 'Root' is the hidden, stable source of a plant's life. It picks up v. 3 of the same chapter: 'the root of the righteous will not be moved.'

Isaiah 5:24 שָׁרְשָׁם֙ root their

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Here: 'Their root'. The people are now pictured as a plant, picking up the vineyard song of 5:1–7. The root is the hidden source of life, and it will fail from below.

Isaiah 11:1 מִשָּׁרָשָׁ֥יו from roots his

Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Here: 'From his roots.' The roots stay alive underground after the trunk is gone. 'His' points back to Jesse: his line is not dead even though nothing shows above ground.

Isaiah 11:10 שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ [the] root of

On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Here: The root, or the root-stock that sends up new growth. In 11:1 a shoot comes from Jesse's stump and a branch from his roots. Here the whole new growth, the coming Davidic ruler, is called 'the root of Jesse'.

Isaiah 14:29 מִשֹּׁ֤רֶשׁ from [the] root of

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Here: "From the root of." The root is the stock a family line or dynasty grows from. The picture is the stump that seems dead but sprouts again (compare 11:1, 11:10). A snake coming from a root is a deliberately mixed image: a plant picture and an animal picture together.

Isaiah 14:30 שָׁרְשֵׁ֔ךְ root your

Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

Isaiah 37:31 שֹׁ֣רֶשׁ a root

And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

Here: "Root": the object of "add." The people are pictured as a tree or vine cut down almost to nothing that now sends roots into the ground again. Roots mean being settled, stable, and alive under the surface.

Isaiah 53:2 וְכַשֹּׁ֙רֶשׁ֙ and like <the> root

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.

Here: 'And like the root'. Here it means a growth coming up from a root, a root-sprout. It echoes Isaiah 11:10, where the 'root of Jesse' is David's line coming back to life.

Jeremiah 17:8 שָֽׁרָשָׁ֔יו roots its

He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

Here: The hidden part that determines survival. The picture is of roots that have reached the source.

Ezekiel 17:6 וְשָׁרָשָׁ֖יו and roots its

It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height, with branches turned toward him; yet its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and yielded branches and sent out shoots.

Ezekiel 17:7 שָׁרֳשֶׁ֣יהָ roots its

But there was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him. It stretched out its branches to him from its planting bed, so that he might water it.

Ezekiel 17:9 שָׁרָשֶׁ֨יהָ מִשָּׁרָשֶֽׁיהָ׃ roots its, from roots its

So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.

Ezekiel 31:7 שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ root its

It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.

Daniel 11:7 שָׁרָשֶׁ֖יהָ roots her

But one from her family line will rise up in his place, come against the army of the king of the North, and enter his fortress, fighting and prevailing.

Hosea 9:16 שָׁרְשָׁ֥ם root their

Ephraim is struck down; their root is withered; they cannot bear fruit. Even if they bear children, I will slay the darlings of their wombs.

Here: 'Their root.' The nation is pictured as a plant, and the damage reaches past leaves and branches to the source of its life. A plant with a dead root has no future at all.

Hosea 14:5 שָׁרָשָׁ֖יו roots its

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Here: Israel's roots. This reverses 9:16, 'Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up.' What a lily lacks (depth) Israel will have.

Amos 2:9 וְשָׁרָשָׁ֖יו and roots his

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

Here: The roots, which are the source of any regrowth. A felled tree can sprout again from its stump (Job 14:7–9). Destroy the roots and nothing comes back.

Malachi 4:1 שֹׁ֥רֶשׁ root

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”

Here: 'Root.' The hidden source of life from which a cut-down tree could sprout again (Job 14:7–9). In this kind of language it often stands for a family's origin or its survival into the future.