Limitless Word
שֶׁרֶשׁsheresh/sheh'-resh/
HebrewH832833 occurrences (KJV)

a root (literally or figuratively)

KJV renders it: bottom, deep, heel, root.

Where it appears(showing the first 32 of 33)

  • Deut 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
  • Judg 5:14Those whose root is in Amalek came out of Ephraim, after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. Governors come down out of Machir. Those who handle the marshal’s staff came out of Zebulun.
  • 2 Kgs 19:30The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
  • Job 8:17His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.
  • Job 13:27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
  • Job 14:8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
  • Job 18:16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.
  • Job 19:28If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’ because the root of the matter is found in me,
  • Job 28:9He puts his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
  • Job 29:19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
  • Job 30:4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
  • Job 36:30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
  • Ps 80:9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
  • Prov 12:3A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
  • Prov 12:12The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.
  • Isa 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
  • Isa 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.
  • Isa 14:29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
  • Isa 14:30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
  • Isa 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
  • Isa 53:2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
  • Jer 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  • Ezek 17:6It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.
  • Ezek 17:7“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
  • Ezek 17:9“Say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? Not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.
  • Ezek 31:7Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
  • Dan 11:7But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail.
  • Hos 9:16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they give birth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
  • Hos 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
  • Amos 2:9Yet I destroyed 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, and his roots from beneath.
  • Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.