Lexicon :: Strong's H8328 - šereš

“From Ephraim those whose root is in Amalek came down,

After you, Benjamin, with your relatives;

From Machir came down commanders and rulers,

And from Zebulun those who [fn]handle the scepter of the [office of] scribe.

“His [godless] roots are wrapped around a pile of rocks,

And he gazes at a house of stones.

“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]

And [critically] observe all my paths;

You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],

“Though its roots grow old in the earth

And its stump dies in the dry soil,

“The roots [of the wicked] are dried up below,

And above, his branch is cut off and withers.

“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’

And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’

“Man puts his hand on [and tears apart] the flinty rock;

He overturns the mountains at the base [looking for treasure].

‘My root is spread out and open to the waters,

And the dew lies all night upon my branch.

“They pluck [and eat] [fn]saltwort (mallows) among the bushes,

And their food is the root of the broom shrub.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],

And He covers the depths of the sea.

You cleared away the ground before it,

And it took deep root and filled the land.

A man will not be established by wickedness,

But the root of the [consistently] righteous will not be moved.

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men,

But the root of the righteous yields richer fruit.

Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]

And the dry grass collapses into the flame,

So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;

Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts

And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Then a Shoot (the Messiah) will spring from the stock of Jesse [David’s father],

And a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.

Then in that day

The nations will make supplications to the Root of Jesse

Who will stand as a signal for the peoples;

And His resting place will be glorious.

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, any of you,

Because the rod [of Judah] that struck you is broken;

For out of the serpent’s root will come a viper [King Hezekiah of Judah],

And its offspring will be a flying serpent.

For He [the Servant of God] grew up before Him like a tender shoot (plant),

And like a root out of dry ground;

He has no stately form or majestic splendor

That we would look at Him,

Nor [handsome] appearance that we would [fn]be attracted to Him.

“For he will be [nourished] like a tree planted by the waters,

That spreads out its roots by the river;

And will not fear the heat when it comes;

But its leaves will be green and moist.

And it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of drought

Nor stop bearing fruit.

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

For its roots extended [downward] to great waters.

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,

They will bear no fruit.

Even though they give birth,

I will slay the precious children of their womb.

I shall be like the dew to Israel;

He will blossom like the lily,

And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

“Yet it was I [not the false gods] who destroyed the Amorite before them,

Though his height was like the height of the cedars,

And he was as strong as the oaks;

I even destroyed his fruit above and his root below.

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant (proud, self-righteous, haughty), and every evildoer shall be stubble; and the day that is coming shall set them on fire,” says the LORD of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.