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Lexicon :: Strong's H8328 - šereš

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שֶׁרֶשׁ
Transliteration
šereš
Pronunciation
sheh'-resh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2471a

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁרֶשׁ sheresh, sheh'-resh; from H8327; a root (literally or figuratively):—bottom, deep, heel, root.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's H8328 in the following manner: root (30x), bottom (1x), deep (1x), heels (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's H8328 in the following manner: root (30x), bottom (1x), deep (1x), heels (1x).

  1. root

    1. root (literal)

    2. root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig)

    3. root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁרֶשׁ sheresh, sheh'-resh; from H8327; a root (literally or figuratively):—bottom, deep, heel, root.
STRONGS H8328: Abbreviations
† שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ noun masculineDeuteronomy 29:17 root; — שׁ׳ absolute Deuteronomy 29:17 +, construct Isaiah 11:10 +; suffix שָׁרְשִׁי Job 29:19, etc.; plural construct שָׁרְשֵׁי Job 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; Hosea 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; Job 18:16; Job 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, דָּבָר שׁ׳ 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; Job 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.).
3. root, figurative=lowest stratum, of mountain Job 28:9, of sea Job 36:30= bottom (text strange and dubious: Du רָאשֵׁי הָרִים, with אֵרוֺ in Job 36:30a); of feet, שָׁרְשֵׁי רַגְלַי Job 13:27, i.e. soles Ew Di De Da and others (elsewhere כַּף), Bu place of treading, footholds; Du (arbitrarily) שָׁרְשִׁי, strike out רגלי.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8330.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

29:17; 29:17; 29:17

Judges

5:14

2 Kings

19:30

Job

8:17; 13:27; 13:27; 14:8; 18:16; 19:28; 28:9; 29:19; 29:19; 30:4; 36; 36:30; 36:30

Psalms

80:10

Proverbs

12:3; 12:12

Isaiah

5:24; 11:1; 11:10; 11:10; 14:29; 14:30; 37:31; 53:2

Jeremiah

17:8

Ezekiel

17:6; 17:7; 17:7; 17:9; 31:7

Daniel

11:7

Hosea

9:16; 14:6

Amos

2:9; 2:9

H8328

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Strong's Number H8328 matches the Hebrew שֶׁרֶשׁ (šereš),
which occurs 33 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 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 the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 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 of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:30 - And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:27 - Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 - Though its root shall become old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:16 - His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 - But ye would say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 - Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:9 - Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:3 - A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:12 - The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 shall be glorious.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Rejoice not thou, all Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And the first-born 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:31 - And the remnant that hath escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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 him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 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 leaf shall be green; and shall not be anxious in the year of drouth, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend her roots towards him, and shot forth her branches towards him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by its roots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:7 - Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, who 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:

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:16 - Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:5 - I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose hight was like the hight of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 4:1 - For behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, 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.
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