King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H8328
Transliteration: shoresh
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-resh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a root
Meaning: a root
Word Summary
shoresh: a root
Original Word: שֶׁרֶשׁTransliteration: shoresh
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh'-resh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a root
Meaning: a root
Strong's Concordance
bottom, deep, heel, root From sharash; a root (literally or figuratively) -- bottom, deep, heel, root.
see HEBREW sharash
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8328. shoresh
שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineDeuteronomy 29:17 root; — ׳שׁ absolute 29:17 +, construct Isaiah 11:10 +; suffix שָׁרְשִׁי Job 29:19, etc.; plural construct שָׁרְשֵׁי 13:27 (see below) Job 36: suffix שָֽׁרָשָׁיו Amos 2:9 +, שָֽׁרָשֶׁיהָ Ezekiel 17:7 +; —
1 root of people under figure of tree, involving firmness, permanence, Amos 2:9; Hosea 9:16; 14:6; Isaiah 14:30; 2 Kings 19:30 = Isaiah 37:31; — שָׁרְשָׁם Judges 5:14 is probably corrupt, see GFM; — so of person (compare Phoenician, Eshmunazar11 GACookepp. 30, 36) Isaiah 5:24; Malachi 3:19; Job 8:17; 18:16; 29:19; Proverbs 12:3, 12; = stock, family Isaiah 11:1, 10; Daniel 11:7, compare (of serpent) Isaiah 14:29; = source or cause Deuteronomy 29:17, ׳שׁ דָּבָר Job 19:28.
2 literally root of tree or shrub Jeremiah 17:8 (simile), Ezekiel 31:7 (metaphor of people). Isaiah 53:2 (simile), Job 14:8; 30:4; of vine (metaphor of people) Ezekiel 17:6-7, 9 (twice in verse); Psalm 80:10 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb with שׁרשׁ Hiph`il).
3 root, figurative=lowest stratum, of mountain Job 28:9, of sea 36:30= bottom (text strange and dubious: Du הָרִים רָאשֵׁי, with אֵרוֺ in va); of feet, רַגְלַי שָׁרְשֵׁי 13:27, i.e. soles Ew Di De Da and others (elsewhere כַּף), Bu place of treading, footholds; Du (arbitrarily) שָׁרְשִׁי, strike out רגלי.
[שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ] noun masculineDaniel 4:12 root (see Biblical Hebrew); — plural suffix שָׁרְשׁוֺ֫הִי of tree 4:12; 4:20; 4:23.