שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ
root
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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H8330 appears — 3 distinct verses 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.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 4:15 שָׁרְשׁ֨וֹ/הִי֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth:
- Daniel 4:23 שָׁרְשׁ֨וֹ/הִי֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots of it in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him;
- Daniel 4:26 שָׁרְשׁ֨וֹ/הִי֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
About this entry
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שרש — transliterated shôresh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “root.” A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. Debuting at Daniel 4:15, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include שרש and שרש. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8330 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 3 verses 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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Roots 3×
- American Standard Version: Roots 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Roots 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Roots 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8330 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8330 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8330 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8330 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- root
Word origin
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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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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