Strong's #8328: sheresh (pronounced sheh'-resh)

from 8327; a root (literally or figuratively):--bottom, deep, heel, root.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sheresh

1) root

1a) root (literal)

1b) root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (figuratively)

1c) root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8327

Usage:

This word is used 33 times:

 

Deuteronomy 29:18: "of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
Judges 5:14: "Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of"
2 Kings 19:30: "of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward."
Job 8:17: " His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."
Job 13:27: "my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet."
Job 14:8: "Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;"
Job 18:16: " His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off."
Job 19:28: "ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found"
Job 28:9: "upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots."
Job 29:19: " My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch."
Job 30:4: "by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
Job 36:30: "his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea."
Psalms 80:9: "Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land."
Proverbs 12:3: "shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved."
Proverbs 12:12: "desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth"
Isaiah 5:24: "and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up"
Isaiah 11:1: "out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:"
Isaiah 11:10: "And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign"
Isaiah 14:29: "of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice,"
Isaiah 14:30: "shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant."
Isaiah 37:31: "of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:"
Isaiah 53:2: "For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no"
Jeremiah 17:8: "by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see"
Ezekiel 17:6: "whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine,"
Ezekiel 17:7: "this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water"
Ezekiel 17:9: "shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither"
Ezekiel 17:9: "or many people to pluck it up by the roots"
Ezekiel 31:7: "in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters."
Daniel 11:7: "But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army,"
Hosea 9:16: "Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea,"
Hosea 14:5: "he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."
Amos 2:9: "as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath."
Malachi 4:1: "of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch."