Shârash — H8327

Definition

verb

to root, i.e. strike into the soil, or (by implication) to pluck from it

1. to uproot, take root, deal with the roots
1. (Piel) to root up, root out
2. (Pual) to be rooted up or out (of produce)
3. (Poel) to take root
4. (Poal) to take root
5. (Hiphil) to take root, cause to take root

Usually translated as

root

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• apóllymi (G622)
• bállō (G906)
• rhíza (G4491)
• rhizóō (G4492)

Occurrences

Shârash occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Job (3), Psalms (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1)

• Job 5:3 — I have seen the foolish taking root (מַשְׁרִ֑ישׁ): but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
• Job 31:8 — Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out (יְשֹׁרָֽשׁוּ).
• Job 31:12 — For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out (תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ) all mine increase.
• Psalms 52:5 — God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root (וְשֵֽׁרֶשְׁךָ֨) thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
• Psalms 80:9 — Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root (וַתַּשְׁרֵ֥שׁ), and it filled the land.
• Isaiah 27:6 — He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root (יַשְׁרֵ֣שׁ): Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
• Isaiah 40:24 — Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root (שֹׁרֵ֥שׁ) in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
• Jeremiah 12:2 — Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root (שֹׁרָ֔שׁוּ): they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.