שָׁ֑רֶשׁ
Sheresh
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8329 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
About this entry
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שרש (Sheresh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Sheresh.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is 1 Chronicles 7:16. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8329 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Was sheresh 1×
- American Standard Version: Was sheresh 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sheresh 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was sheresh 1×
King James Version Public Domain
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8329 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Sheresh = "root"
- son of Machir and grandson of Manasseh
Word origin
שָׁ֑רֶשׁ n.pr.m. in Manasseh;— 1 Ch 7:16
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרש (sheresh) (H8328) — root.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שֹׁרֶשׁ
- , v. שָׁרָר) [chain, knot,] root. — Pl. שֳׁרָשִׁים, שֳׁרָשִׁין; constr. שָׁרְשֵׁי, שׁוֹרְשֵׁי. B. Bath. V, 4 העולה … ומן הש׳ וכ׳ that which shoots forth out of the trunk, or out of the roots, belongs to the landowner (v. גֶּזַע), expl. ib. 82ᵃ כל שאינו … זהו מן הש׳ that which does not see the light of day (when it shoots forth) is out of the roots’. Y. Ab. Zar. III, 43ᵃ top; Y. Taan. I, 64ᵇ ש׳ חטה the roots of wheat; ש׳ תאנה of fig-trees. Tosef. Shebi. VII, 17; ‘Uktsin I, 4, v. קוֹלָס. Ab. III, 17 וְשֳׁרָשָׁיו מרובין whose roots are many; a. fr.
שֹׁרֶשׁ ²
- Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXIX, 17. Targ. Job XIV, 8 (Ms. pl.).—Pl. שָׁרְשִׁין, שִׁוֹ׳. Ib. XVIII, 16. Targ. Is. LIII, 2. Targ. Ps. LXXX, 10 שׁוֹרָשֵׁיהוֹן (Ms. שׁוֹרְשְׁיָיהָא).
שָׁרַשׁ
- (b. h.), Hif. הִשְׁרִישׁ (denom. of שֹׁרֶשׁ) to take root. Shebi. II, 7 שהִשְׁרִישׁוּ לפני וכ׳ which have taken root before the New Year; R. Hash. 13ᵇ. Ib.; Tosef. Shebi. II, 5 ומקצתו ה׳ לאחר וכ׳ and part of which took root after the New Year; a. fr.
- to uproot, tear out. Ib. 11, sq. אין … לשָׁרֵשׁ וכ׳ we do not force him to tear out &c. Shebi. IV, 4 יְשָׁרֵשׁ he must take it out with the root, opp. יגום, v. גָּמַם. B. Bath. 80ᵇ חופר ומְשָׁרֵשׁ he has the right to dig and take them out with the roots; Taan. 25ᵇ חופר … ומְשָׁרֵישׁ.
- 1. to be uprooted, plucked out. Tanḥ. M’tsorʿa 2 (ref. to Ps. LII, 7) דואג נ׳ וכ׳ Doeg was rooted out of the life of this world and of the hereafter. e.g. Psalms 52:7
- 2. (of roots) to spread. Num. R. s. 144 (ref. to Koh. XII, 11) כשם … מִשְׁתָּרְשִׁים … ומשתרשים וכ׳ as roots of a tree spread in all directions, so the words of the Law enter and penetrate the whole body; (Pesik. R. s. 3 משתילים). e.g. Ecclesiastes 12:11
- 3. (v. next w.) to gain, profit (cmp. רָוַח). B. Kam. 67ᵇ sq. מפני שנ׳ בחטא because he became the gainer in sin (he gained possession of the stolen object by a change of form or ownership, v. שִׁינּוּי); אילימא לפני יאוש מי איכא נ׳ if you mean (that he slaughtered or sold it) before the owner had given it up (v. יֵאוּשׁ): there is no gain in sin in the case (since he has not gained possession through the change).
שְׁרַשׁ
- Af. אַשְׁרֵישׁ same, to take root. Men. 68ᵇ מהנך דאַשְׁרוּשׁ וכ׳ of that barley that has taken root before the ʿOmer time. Gitt. 22ᵃ בדאשרוש כולי וכ׳ when the planted trees have taken root, all agree (that they are subject to tithes); a. e.
- 1. to cause to take root, plant. Targ. Ps. LXXX, 10.
- 2. to uproot, tear out. Targ. Koh. III, 2.
- (v. P. Sm. 4340) [to expand,] to bring profit, benefit. M. Kat. 12ᵃ כיון … שָׁרָשׁוּיְי … מְשָׁרְשׁוּ ליה וכ׳ since they receive no wages, they (by working for him during the festive week) only intend to benefit him.
- to be uprooted. B. Bath. 82ᵃ למחפר ולמִשְּׁרַשׁ קיימי ed. (Ms. M. לחפור ולשרש Hebr.) they are liable to be dug for and taken out (when they cease to bear fruit). Ib. למיחפר ולשרש (corr. acc., or לחפור ולשרש).
- to be profitable; א׳ ל־ to profit. Gitt. 35ᵃ א׳ לה מקום דינר (Rashi אשתרש) she saved as much dough (in the bread which she gave away) as would have been in the space which was occupied by the Denar (that came into it). Ib. 44ᵃ; Ḥull. 131ᵃ קא מִשְׁתָּרְשֵׁי ליה he is benefited (by being released from a debt). B. Mets. 42ᵇ והא קא משתרשי ליה but did he not have the benefit (of using his neighbor’s cuscuta for brewing and saving his own? why, then, should he not indemnify his neighbor?). Keth. 108ᵃ הא קא משתרשי ליה is he (for whom the debt was paid) not benefited? (better הא קא מְשָׁרְשֵׁי ליה does he who pays the debt for him not benefit him?, v. supra).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Sheresh). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Root, a descendant of Manasseh (1 Chr. 7:16).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(root), son of Machir the son of Manasseh by his wife Manchah. (1 Chronicles 7:16) (B.C. before 1419.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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