שֹׁרֶשׁ
shoresh · root
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H8330 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shoresh (שֹׁרֶשׁ) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “root”.
(Aramaic).
How to say it
sho·resh
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
- The part of a tree under the ground that stays alive even when the trunk is cut.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Daniel 4:15
But leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals be his portion in the grass of the earth.
- Daniel 4:23
And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’:
- Daniel 4:26
And as for what they said, to leave the stump of the roots of the tree, your kingdom for you will remain firm from the time that you know that the heavens rule.