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Lexicon :: Strong's G4491 - riza

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ῥίζα
Transliteration
riza (Key)
Pronunciation
hrid'-zah
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:985,985

Strong’s Definitions

ῥίζα rhíza, hrid'-zah; apparently a primary word; a "root" (literally or figuratively):—root.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's G4491 in the following manner: root (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's G4491 in the following manner: root (17x).
  1. a root

  2. that which like a root springs from a root, a sprout, shoot

  3. metaph. offspring, progeny

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ῥίζα rhíza, hrid'-zah; apparently a primary word; a "root" (literally or figuratively):—root.
STRONGS G4491:
ῤίζα, ῤίζης, (akin to German Reis (cf. Latinradix; English root; see Curtius, § 515; Fick, Part 3:775)), from Homer down; the Sept. for שֹׁרֶשׁ;
1. a root: properly, Matthew 3:10; Luke 3:9; ἐκ ῤιζῶν, from the roots (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 51, 1 d.), Mark 11:20; ῤίζαν ἔχειν, to strike deep root, Matthew 13:6; Mark 4:6; tropically, οὐ ῤίζαν ἔχειν ἐν ἑαυτῷ, spoken of one who has but a superficial experience of divine truth, has not permitted it to make its way into the inmost recesses of his soul, Matthew 13:21; Mark 4:17; Luke 8:13; in figurative discourse, ῤίζα πικρίας (see πικρία) of a person disposed to apostatize and induce others to commit the same offence, Hebrews 12:15; the progenitors of a race are called ῤίζα, their descendants κλάδοι (see κλάδος, b.), Romans 11:16-18. Metaphorically, cause, origin, source: πάντων τῶν κακῶν, 1 Timothy 6:10; τῆς σοφίας, Sir. 1:6 (5), 20 (18); τῆς ἀθανασίας, Wis. 15:3; τῆς ἁμαρτίας, of the devil, Ev. Nicod. 23; ἀρχή καί ῤίζα παντός ἀγαθοῦ, Epicur. quoted in Atlmn. 12, 67, p. 546f; πηγή καί ῤίζα καλοκἀγαθίας τό νομίμου τυχεῖν παιδείας, Plutarch, de purr. educ. c. 7 b.
2. after the use of the Hebrew שֹׁרֶשׁ, that which like a root springs from a root, a sprout, shoot; metaphorically, offspring, progeny: Romans 15:12; Revelation 5:5; Revelation 22:16 (Isaiah 11:10).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
11:10
Matthew
3:10; 13:6; 13:21
Mark
4:6; 4:17; 11:20
Luke
3:9; 8:13
Romans
11:16; 11:17; 11:18; 15:12
1 Timothy
6:10
Hebrews
12:15
Revelation
5:5; 22:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4491 matches the Greek ῥίζα (riza),
which occurs 40 times in 38 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:30 - ‘And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 -

“I have seen the ignorant fool taking root,

And I cursed his abode suddenly.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:12 -

“While it is still green and not cut down,

Yet it dries up before any other [fn]plant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:27 -

“You put my feet in the stocks

And kept watch over all my paths;

You [fn]set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 -

“Though its roots grow old in the ground

And its stump dies in the dry soil,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:16 -

“His roots are dried below,

And his branch is cut off above.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 -

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’

‘And the root of the matter is found in [fn]him?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 -

“He sends his hand forth to the flint;

He overturns the mountains at the [fn]base.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 -

‘My root is spread out to the waters,

And dew lies all night on my branch.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 -

Who pluck [fn]mallow by the bushes,

And whose food is the root of the broom tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:12 -

“For it would be fire that consumes to [fn]Abaddon,

And would uproot all my [fn]produce.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 48:2 -

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,

Is Mount Zion in the far north,

The city of the great King.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:9 -

You cleared the ground before it,

And it took deep root and filled the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:3 -

A man will not be established by wickedness,

But the root of the righteous will not be shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:12 -

The wicked man desires a stronghold of evil men,

But the root of the righteous gives fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 -

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble

And dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom [fn]blow away as dust;

For they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts

And the word of the Holy One of Israel they have spurned.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 -

Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse,

And a branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 -

Then it will be in that day,

That the nations will seek the root of Jesse,

Who will stand as a [fn]standard for the peoples;

And His resting place will be [fn]glorious.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:31 - “And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 -

[fn]Scarcely have they been planted;

[fn]Scarcely have they been sown;

[fn]Scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,

But He merely blows on them, and they [fn]wither,

And the storm carries them away like stubble.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 -

For He grew up before Him like a tender [fn]shoot,

And like a root out of parched ground;

He has no stately form or majesty

That we should look upon Him,

Nor appearance that we should desire Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 -

“And he will be like a tree planted by the water,

That sends forth its roots by a stream

And will not fear when the heat comes;

But its leaves will be green,

And it will not be anxious in a year of drought

Nor refrain from yielding fruit.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - “Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its foliage turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 -

“But there was [fn]another great eagle with great wings and much plumage; and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and sent out its foliage toward him from the beds where it was planted, that he might water it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - “Say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Will it succeed? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it dries up—so that all its sprouting leaves dry up? And neither by great [fn]strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:7 -

‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its foliage;

For its [fn]roots extended to many waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:41 - “Now in that you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron; it will be a divided kingdom; but it will have in it the toughness of iron, inasmuch as you saw the iron mixed with [fn]common clay.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:15 -

“Yet leave the stump [fn]with its roots in the earth,

But with a band of iron and bronze around it

In the new grass of the field;

And let him be drenched with the dew of heaven,

And let [fn]him share with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:23 - ‘But in that the king saw a watcher, a holy one, descending from heaven and saying, “Chop down the tree and destroy it; yet leave the stump [fn]with its roots in the earth, but with a band of iron and bronze around it in the new grass of the field, and let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let [fn]him share with the beasts of the field until seven [fn]periods of time pass over him,”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:26 - ‘And in that they said to leave the stump [fn]with the roots of the tree, your kingdom will endure for you after you know that it is Heaven that rules with power.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - “But one of the [fn]descendants of her line will stand in his place, and he will come against their military force and enter the fortress of the king of the North, and he will deal with them and display strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:20 -

“Then in his place one will stand who will have an [fn]oppressor pass through the [fn]Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be broken, though not in anger nor in battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:16 -

Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up;

They will bear no fruit.

Even though they bear children,

I will put to death the desirable ones of their womb.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:5 -

I will be like the dew to Israel;

He will flourish like the lily,

And he will [fn]take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 -

“Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

[fn]Though his height was like the height of cedars,

And he was strong as the oaks;

I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 -

[fn]For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every worker of wickedness will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them aflame,” says Yahweh of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

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