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ῥίζα

rhíza · G4491 · Greek · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. root

    The underground part of a plant

    Examples

    Matthew 3:10 “And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire.

    Matthew 13:6 “But after the sun rose, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

    Matthew 13:21 yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he falls away.

  2. descendant, offspring

    (A figurative extension of meaning of ῥίζα ‘root,’) A descendant, with probable connotations of continuing relation

    Examples

    Romans 15:12 Again Isaiah says, “THERE SHALL COME THE ROOT OF JESSE, AND HE WHO ARISES TO RULE OVER THE GENTILES, IN HIM WILL THE GENTILES HOPE.”

    Revelation 5:5 And one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to be able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”

    Revelation 22:16 “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you of these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

  3. source, cause, reason

    (A figurative extension of meaning of ῥίζα ‘root,’) That which constitutes a basic source or reason for an event or state

    Examples

    1 Timothy 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

    Hebrews 12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

How it’s used In 9 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

8 occurrences in 7 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 2 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
שֶׁרֶשׁ sheresh · H8328 · root, root > cause
Hebrew שֶׁרֶשׁ and Greek ῥίζα are direct translation equivalents, both denoting 'root' in the literal botanical sense and in figurative senses such as ancestry, foundation, or source.
Semantic domains 3 entries
Descendant, offspring10.33
The noun can denote a line of descent, picturing an ancestor as the root from which descendants grow. John the Baptist warns, “And the axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit is being cut down and thrown into the fire” (Matthew 3:10, of the coming judgment on Abraham's descendants).
Root3.47
The noun also denotes the literal underground part of a plant. Jesus explains why the seed sown on rocky soil fails: “because they had no root, they withered away” (Matthew 13:6).
Source, cause, reason89.17
The same noun can denote the underlying cause from which something else grows. Jesus warns that a hearer with no firm root falls away under pressure: “yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution occurs because of the word, immediately he falls away” (Matthew 13:21).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ῥίζαrhíza · G4491ἐκριζόω ekrizóō · G1610 · to uproot, to pull out by the roots · 4×ῥιζόω rhizóō · G4492 · to be strengthened, to be rooted in · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ῤίζης, ἡ (akin to German Reis (cf. Latinradix; English root; see Curtius, § 515; Fick,…
ῤίζης, ἡ (akin to German Reis (cf. Latinradix; English root; see Curtius, § 515; Fick, Part 3:775)), from Homer down; the Sept. for שֹׁרֶשׁ;
1. a root: properly, Mt 3:10; Lk 3:9; ἐκ ῤιζῶν, from the roots (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 51, 1 d.), Mk 11:20; ῤίζαν ἔχειν, to strike deep root, Mt 13:6; Mk 4:6; tropically, οὐ ῤίζαν ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, spoken of one who has but a superficial experience of divine truth, has not permitted it to make its way into the inmost recesses of his soul, Mt 13:21; Mk 4:17; Lk 8:13; in figurative discourse, ῤίζα πικρίας (see πικρία) of a person disposed to apostatize and induce others to commit the same offence, Heb 12:15; the progenitors of a race are called ῤίζα, their descendants κλάδοι (see κλάδος, b.), Rom 11:16-18. Metaphorically, cause, origin, source: πάντων τῶν κακῶν, 1 Tim 6:10; τῆς σοφίας, Sir. 1:6 (5), 20 (18); τῆς ἀθανασίας, Wis. 15:3; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, of the devil, Ev. Nicod. 23; ἀρχή καί ῤίζα παντός ἀγαθοῦ, Epicur. quoted in Atlmn. 12, 67, p. 546f; πηγή καί ῤίζα καλοκἀγαθίας τό νομίμου τυχεῖν παιδείας, Plutarch, de purr. educ. c. 7 b.
2. after the use of the Hebrew שֹׁרֶשׁ, that which like a root springs from a root, a sprout, shoot; metaphorically, offspring, progeny: Rom 15:12; Rev 5:5; Rev 22:16 (Isa 11:10).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Non-Fruit Parts of Plants13 occurrencesKinship Relations Involving Successive Generations3 occurrencesCause and/or Reason2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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