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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 be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:14 - Out of Ephraim their root is against Amalek. After thee, Benjamin, among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down lawgivers, And out of Zebulun those drawing with the reed of a writer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:30

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:30 - And it hath continued -- The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left -- to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:27 - And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 - If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:16 - From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:28 - But ye say, 'Why do we pursue after him?' And the root of the matter hath been found in me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:9 - Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:19 - My root is open unto the waters, And dew doth lodge on my branch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 - Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:30 - Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:9 - Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:3 - A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:12 - The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:1 - And a rod hath come out from the stock of Jesse, And a branch from his roots is fruitful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 - And there hath been, in that day, A root of Jesse that is standing for an ensign of peoples, Unto him do nations seek, And his rest hath been -- honour!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit is a flying saraph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:30 - And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:31

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:31 - And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 53:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 53:2 - Yea, he cometh up as a tender plant before Him, And as a root out of a dry land, He hath no form, nor honour, when we observe him, Nor appearance, when we desire him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:8 - And hath been as a tree planted by waters, And by a rivulet he sendeth forth his roots, And he doth not see when heat cometh, And his leaf hath been green, And in a year of dearth he is not sorrowful, Nor doth he cease from making fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:6 - And it springeth up, and becometh a spreading vine, humble of stature, To turn its thin shoots toward itself, And its roots are under it, And it becometh a vine, and maketh boughs, And sendeth forth beauteous branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - And there is another great eagle, Great-winged, and abounding with feathers, And lo, this vine hath bent its roots toward him, And its thin shoots it hath sent out toward him, To water it from the furrows of its planting,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:9 - Say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It prospereth -- its roots doth he not draw out, And its fruit cut off, and it is withered? In all the leaves of its springing it withereth, And not by great strength, and by a numerous people, To lift it up by its roots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:7 - And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:7 - 'And one hath stood up from a branch of her roots, in his station, and he cometh in unto the bulwark, yea, he cometh into a stronghold of the king of the south, and hath wrought against them, and hath done mightily;

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:16 - Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:5 - I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 2:9 - And I -- I have destroyed the Amorite from before them, Whose height is as the height of cedars, And strong he is as the oaks, And I destroy 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, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,
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