sharash · take root, uproot

What it means

sharash (שָׁרַשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “take root, uproot”.

To take root, to strike root. In another form of the verb it means the opposite: to uproot.

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. To take hold in the ground by sending out roots, like a plant that prospers.
2. To pull a plant out with all its roots.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• taken root ×2
• be uprooted ×1
• it struck ×1
• it would uproot ×1
• taking root ×1
• uproot you ×1
• will take root ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Job 5:3

  I have seen the fool taking root, and I cursed his dwelling suddenly.

• Job 31:8

  let me sow and another eat, and let my shoots be uprooted.

• Job 31:12

  for it would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and all my harvest it would uproot.

• Psalms 52:5

  El also will tear you down forever; he will seize you and tear you away from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

• Psalms 80:9

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

• Isaiah 27:6

  In the days to come Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and sprout, and they will fill the face of the world with produce.

• Isaiah 40:24

  Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely has their trunk taken root in the earth, when he also blows on them, and they wither, and the storm like stubble carries them off.

• Jeremiah 12:2

  You planted them; they have even taken root; they grow, they even produce fruit; near are you in their mouth, but far from their kidneys.