שֹׁרֶשׁ sheresh

Hebrew word for “root” · Strong’s H8328 · used 33 times in 32 verses

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Meaning

1) root; 1a) root (literal);

How it is translated

Glosses given for sheresh in context, with how often each is used:

• root 18
• roots 14
• like root 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 17 (3), Proverbs 12 (2), Isaiah 11 (2), Isaiah 14 (2), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Judges 5 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), Job 8 (1), Job 13 (1), Job 14 (1)

Forms

• שׁרשׁ 5
• שׁרשׁיו 4
• ושׁרשׁ 4
• שׁרשׁיה 4
• שׁרשׁם 3
• שׁרשׁי 2
• שׁרשׁו 2
• משׁרשׁ 2
• ושׁרשׁיו 2
• ושׁרשׁי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with sheresh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פְּרִי peri “fruit” 7
• דָּלִיּוֹת daliyyah “branch” 3
• מַעַל maal “above” 4
• יָבֵשׁ yavesh “to wither” 3
• גֶּזַע geza “stock” 2
• נֵצֶר netser “branch” 2
• פָּנָה panah “to turn” 3
• שֵׁבֶט shevet “tribe” 3
• קַשׁ qash “stubble” 2
• מַטָּה mattah “beneath” 2
• חָמַד chamad “to desire” 2
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 4

Key verses

The verses using sheresh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these…
• Job 18:16 — His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
• Proverbs 12:12 — The wicked desireth the net of evil but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
• Isaiah 5:24 — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust:…
• Isaiah 11:1 — And there shall come forth a rod 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 of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
• Isaiah 14:29 — Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit…
• Isaiah 37:31 — And the remnant that is escaped 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 form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no…
• Hosea 14:5 — I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
• Amos 2:9 — Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above,…
• Malachi 4:1 — For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.