# שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh)

Israeli respelling: she-resh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8328. 32 Old Testament occurrences.

a root (literally or figuratively)

King James renderings: bottom, deep, heel, root.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/sheresh-h8328

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Judges 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/5/14) — 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…
- [2 Kings 19:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/30) — And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
- [Job 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/8/17) — His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
- [Job 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/27) — 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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/8) — Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
- [Job 18:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/18/16) — His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
- [Job 19:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/28) — But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
- [Job 28:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/28/9) — He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
- [Job 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/19) — My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
- [Job 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/4) — Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
- [Job 36:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/36/30) — Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- [Psalms 80:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/80/9) — Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
- [Proverbs 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/3) — A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
- [Proverbs 12:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/12/12) — The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
- [Isaiah 5:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 sha…
- [Isaiah 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 cocka…
- [Isaiah 14:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/30) — 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 t…
- [Isaiah 37:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/17/8) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 17:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/6) — 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 beca…
- [Ezekiel 17:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/7) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/9) — 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?…
- [Ezekiel 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/7) — Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
- [Daniel 11:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/7) — 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…
- [Hosea 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/16) — 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…
- [Hosea 14:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Malachi 4:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…