To uproot
שָׁרַשׁStrong’s H8327sharash (sha-rash)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sharash is the Hebrew word usually translated “taking root”, “let them be rooted up” and “it will root up”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.”
Meaning
- To uproot, take root, deal with the roots(Piel) to root up, root out · (Pual) to be rooted up or out (of produce) · (Poel) to take root · (Poal) to take root · (Hiphil) to take root, cause to take root
How it's translated
- taking root 1
- let them be rooted up 1
- it will root up 1
- and he will root up you 1
- and it took root 1
- it will take root 1
- it has taken root 1
- they have taken root 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 31:8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
- Job 31:12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- Psalms 52:5God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Psalms 80:9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
- Isaiah 27:6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
- Isaiah 40:24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁרַשׁ sharash · to uproot
1) to uproot, take root, deal with the roots 1a) (Piel) to root up, root out 1b) (Pual) to be rooted up or out (of produce) 1c) (Poel) to take root 1d) (Poal) to take root 1e) (Hiphil) to take root, cause to take root
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.