Strong's #8327: sharash (pronounced shaw-rash')

a primitive root; to root, i.e. strike into the soil, or (by implication) to pluck from it:--(take, cause to take) root (out).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shârash

1) to uproot, take root, deal with the roots

1a) (Piel) to root up, root out

1b) (Pual) to be rooted up or out (of produce)

1c) (Poel) to take root

1d) (Poal) to take root

1e) (Hiphil) to take root, cause to take root

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Job 5:3: "I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation."
Job 31:8: "and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out."
Job 31:12: "that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase."
Psalms 52:5: "he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living."
Psalms 80:9: "Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land."
Isaiah 27:6: "He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face"
Isaiah 40:24: "yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither,"
Jeremiah 12:2: "Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou"