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שֶׁרֶשׁ H8328
H8328 is the Hebrew word שֶׁרֶשׁ, transliterated sheresh and said sheh'-resh. The King James Version most often renders it root.
What it means
a root (literally or figuratively).
Where it comes from
from H8327 (שָׁרַשׁ).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 29 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Verses using שֶׁרֶשׁ
All 29 verses, quoted in full.
Deuteronomy 29:18 · KJV
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 nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Judges 5:14 · KJV
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
2 Kings 19:30 · KJV
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Job 8:17 · KJV
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Job 13:27 · KJV
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job 14:8 · KJV
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Job 18:16 · KJV
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
Job 19:28 · KJV
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Job 29:19 · KJV
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Job 30:4 · KJV
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job 36:30 · KJV
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Psalm 80:9 · KJV
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Proverbs 12:3 · KJV
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
Proverbs 12:12 · KJV
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Isaiah 5:24 · KJV
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: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 11:10 · KJV
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 · KJV
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 shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Isaiah 14:30 · KJV
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Isaiah 37:31 · KJV
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
Isaiah 53:2 · KJV
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 beauty that we should desire him.
Jeremiah 17:8 · KJV
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Ezekiel 17:6 · KJV
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel 17:7 · KJV
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
Ezekiel 17:9 · KJV
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Ezekiel 31:7 · KJV
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
Daniel 11:7 · KJV
But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
Hosea 9:16 · KJV
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
Hosea 14:5 · KJV
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Malachi 4:1 · KJV
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 them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Common questions
What does Strong's H8328 mean?
H8328 is the Hebrew word שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh), meaning a root (literally or figuratively).
How is H8328 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it root (10 times), roots (8 times), take root (2 times), among you a root (1 time), heels (1 time), among others.
How many times does H8328 appear in the Bible?
שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh) is tagged in 29 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H8328 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from H8327 (שָׁרַשׁ).
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