sheresh · root

What it means

sheresh (שֶׁרֶשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “root”.

Of a plant; also the origin of something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The part of a plant under the ground that holds it up and feeds it.
2. What gives rise to something; a shoot from a stock, like a descendant of Jesse.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• root ×19
• roots ×13
• soles ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×9
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1
• Malachi×1

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.

• Judges 5:14

  From Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. From Machir went down those who command, and from Zebulun those who carry the staff of the scribe.

• 2 Kings 19:30

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• Job 8:17

  Over a heap of stones his roots are entwined; he sees a house of stones.

• Job 13:27

  You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; on the soles of my feet you set a mark.

• Job 14:8

  If its root grows old in the earth, and in the dust its trunk dies,

• Job 18:16

  Below his roots dry up, and above his branches wither.

• Job 19:28

  If you say, ‘How shall we pursue him?’ and that the root of the matter is found in me,

• Job 28:9

  Against the flint he puts forth his hand; he overturns the mountains from the root.

• Job 29:19

  My root is open to the waters, and the dew lodges all night on my branches.

• Job 30:4

  They pluck salt herb by the brush, and the root of the broom is their bread.

• Job 36:30

  Look, he spreads his light over himself, and the roots of the sea he covers.

• Psalms 80:9

  You cleared the ground before it, and it struck its roots and filled the land.

• Proverbs 12:3

  A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved.

• Proverbs 12:12

  The wicked desires the net of evil men, but the root of the righteous gives fruit.

• Isaiah 5:24

  Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 11:1

  And a shoot will come out from the trunk of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

• Isaiah 11:10

  And it will happen on that day that the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner for the peoples, the nations will seek him, and his resting place will be glory.

• Isaiah 14:29

  Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for from the root of the serpent will come out a cobra, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

• Isaiah 14:30

  And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and it will kill your remnant.

• Isaiah 37:31

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• Isaiah 53:2

  And he grew up like a young shoot before him, and like a root from a dry land; he had no form nor majesty that we should look at him, nor appearance that we should desire him.

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• Ezekiel 17:6

  And it sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in stature, so that its branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it; and it became a vine, and produced shoots and sent out foliage.

• Ezekiel 17:7

  And there was another great eagle, great of wings and full of feathers; and look, this vine bent its roots toward it, and sent out its branches toward it, so that it might water it, from the beds of its planting.

• Ezekiel 17:9

  Say, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots and strip off its fruit, so that it withers? All the leaves of its sprouting will wither; and not with a great arm nor with many people will it take to pull it up from its roots.

• Ezekiel 31:7

  And it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by many waters.

• Daniel 11:7

  But one from a shoot of her roots will stand up in his place, and he will come against the army and enter the stronghold of the king of the north, and act against them and prevail.

• Hosea 9:16

  Ephraim is struck, their root is dried up; they will bear no fruit; even if they give birth, I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.

• Hosea 14:5

  I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily, and strike his roots like Lebanon.

• Amos 2:9

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

• Malachi 4:1

  For look, the day is coming, burning like the oven; and all the insolent and all who do wickedness will be stubble; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says YHWH Tsevaot, so that it will not leave them root or branch.

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