Strong's #4491: rhiza (pronounced hrid'-zah)

apparently a primary word; a "root" (literally or figuratively):--root.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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rhiza

1) a root

2) that which like a root springs from a root, a sprout, shoot

3) metaphorically offspring, progeny

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: apparently a primary word

Citing in TDNT: 6:985, 985

Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

 

Matthew 3:10: "is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every"
Matthew 13:6: "and because they had no root, they withered away."
Matthew 13:21: "Yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while:"
Mark 4:6: "and because it had no root, it withered away."
Mark 4:17: "And have no root in themselves, and so"
Mark 11:20: "fig tree dried up from the roots."
Luke 3:9: "is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree"
Luke 8:13: "these have no root, which for a while believe,"
Romans 11:16: "holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches."
Romans 11:17: "with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;"
Romans 11:18: "thou bearest not the root, but the root"
Romans 11:18: "the root, but the root thee."
Romans 15:12: "Isaiah saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over"
1 Timothy 6:10: "the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some"
Hebrews 12:15: "of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble"
Revelation 5:5: "the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open"
Revelation 22:16: "I am the root and the offspring of David,"