שֶׁרֶשׁ
sheresh · H8328 · Hebrew · 33 occurrences
Meanings
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root
A part of a plant normally below ground, which acts as a support and collects water and nourishment, associated with well-being, offspring, and the inclination of the mind
ExamplesDeuteronomy 29:18 so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
Judges 5:14 “From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down, Following you, Benjamin, with your peoples; From Machir commanders came down, And from Zebulun those who wield the staff of office.
2 Kings 19:30 ‘The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
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root > cause
Literally: root of a matter; hence: a person or event that gives rise to (another) event
ExamplesJob 19:28 “If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’ And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’
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root, base, sole
Literally: root; hence: a referent pointing to the bottom part of an object
How it’s used In 7 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
27 occurrences in 12 groups
- הוּhis 9
- הּher 5
- הֶםtheir 3
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָמַדto stand 1
- פָּרָהto grow 1
What it doesIt is the subject
12 occurrences in 9 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 3
- Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (9) 9
What is done to itIt is the object
10 occurrences in 9 groups
- Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10
What it is said to bePredicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- יֵשׁthere is, there are 1
- עֲמָלֵקAmalek 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 3 groups
- מִןfrom 8
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נֵצֶרsprout 1
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 2 words
- ῥίζα rhíza · G4491 · root, descendant, offspring
- Greek ῥίζα (rhiza) serves as the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh), both denoting 'root' in both literal botanical and figurative/metaphorical senses (e.g., root of a plant, root/foundation of a concept or lineage).
- שֹׁרֶשׁ shôresh · H8330 · root
- Aramaic cognate of שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh, H8328), sharing the same root and core semantic range ('root'), representing the expected phonological and morphological reflex of the Hebrew lemma in Biblical Aramaic contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Vegetation001002007
- This noun denotes the root of a plant, as in Deuteronomy 29:18's warning against a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
- Happen002002003003
- The noun also occurs in a figurative sense of a people's restoration coming to pass, as in 2 Kings 19:30's promise that the survivors of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8328. shoresh שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineDeu 29:17 root; — ׳שׁ absolute Deu 29:17 +,…
שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineDeu 29:17 root; — ׳שׁ absolute Deu 29:17 +, construct Isa 11:10 +; suffix שָׁרְשִׁי Job 29:19, etc.; plural construct שָׁרְשֵׁי Job 13:27 (see below) Job 36: suffix שָֽׁרָשָׁיו Amo 2:9 +, שָֽׁרָשֶׁיהָ Eze 17:7 +; —
1 root of people under figure of tree, involving firmness, permanence, Amo 2:9; Hos 9:16; Hos 14:6; Isa 14:30; 2Ki 19:30 = Isa 37:31; — שָׁרְשָׁם Jdg 5:14 is probably corrupt, see GFM; — so of person (compare Phoenician, Eshmunazar11 GACookepp. 30, 36) Isa 5:24; Malachi 3:19; Job 8:17; Job 18:16; Job 29:19; Pro 12:3, Pro 12:12; = stock, family Isa 11:1, Isa 11:10; Dan 11:7, compare (of serpent) Isa 14:29; = source or cause Deu 29:17, ׳שׁ דָּבָר Job 19:28.
2 literally root of tree or shrub Jer 17:8 (simile), Eze 31:7 (metaphor of people). Isa 53:2 (simile), Job 14:8; Job 30:4; of vine (metaphor of people) Eze 17:6-7, Eze 17:9 (twice in verse); Psa 80:10 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb with שׁרשׁ Hiph`il).
3 root, figurative=lowest stratum, of mountain Job 28:9, of sea Job 36:30= bottom (text strange and dubious: Du הָרִים רָאשֵׁי, with אֵרוֺ in va); of feet, רַגְלַי שָׁרְשֵׁי Job 13:27, i.e. soles Ew Di De Da and others (elsewhere כַּף), Bu place of treading, footholds; Du (arbitrarily) שָׁרְשִׁי, strike out רגלי.
[שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ] noun masculineDan 4:12 root (see Biblical Hebrew); — plural suffix שָׁרְשׁוֺ֫הִי of tree Dan 4:12; Dan 4:20; Dan 4:23.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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