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שֹׁ֫רֶשׁStrong’s H8328

sheresh (she-resh)

Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sheresh is the Hebrew word usually translated “roots its”, “root of” and “root”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.

“But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:”
Daniel 11:7 KJV
Meaning
  1. Rootroot (literal) · root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig) · root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig)
How it's translated
  • roots its 6
  • and root of 4
  • a root 3
  • root their 3
  • root its 2
  • roots of 1
  • roots his 1
  • from root 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 9
  • Isaiah 7
  • Ezekiel 4
  • Proverbs 2
  • Hosea 2
  • Deuteronomy 1

13 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 32 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 1
29:18
Judges 1
5:14
2 Kings 1
19:30
Psalms 1
80:9
Proverbs 2
12:312:12
Jeremiah 1
17:8
Daniel 1
11:7
Hosea 2
9:1614:5
Amos 1
2:9
Malachi 1
4:1
Hebrew dictionary

שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ sheresh · root

1) root 1a) root (literal) 1b) root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig) 1c) root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig) Aramaic equivalent: sho.resh (שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ "root" H8330)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “root” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ROOT, noun

[Latin radix. A root is a shoot, and only a different application of rod, Latin radius.]

  1. That part of a plant which enters and fixes itself in the earth, and serves to support the plant in an erect position, while by means of its fibrils it imbibes nutriment for the stem, branches and fruit.
  2. The part of any thing that resembles the roots of a plant in manner of growth; as the roots of a cancer, of teeth, etc.
  3. The bottom or lower part of any thing.
  4. A plant whose root is esculent or the most useful part; as beets, carrots, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “root”
  1. The original or cause of any thing.“The love of money is the root of all evil” 1 Timothy 6:10
  2. The first ancestor.
  3. In arithmetic and algebra, the root of any quantity is such a quantity as, when multiplied into itself a certain number of times, will exactly produce that quantity.
  4. Means of growth. 'He hath no root in himself; ' that is, no soil in which grace can grow and flourish. Matthew 13:6
  5. In music, the fundamental note of any chord.

ROOT, verb intransitive

  1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots.
  2. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
  3. To sink deep.

ROOT, verb transitive

  1. To plant and fix deep in the earth; used chiefly in the participle; as rooted trees or forests.
  2. To plant deeply; to impress deeply and durably.
  3. In Scripture, to be rooted and grounded in Christ, is to be firmly united to him by faith and love, and well established in the belief of his character and doctrines. Ephesians 3:17

ROOT, verb intransitive

or t.

    ROOT'-BOUND, adjective

    Fixed to the earth by roots.

      ROOT'-BUILT, adjective

      Built of roots.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.