שֶׁרֶשׁ
sheresh · sheh'-resh
a root (literally or figuratively)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8327 (שָׁרַשׁ);
a root (literally or figuratively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bottom, deep, heel, root.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest › to consume, to destroy
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest that works to consume, to destroy.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֶׁרֶשׁ above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- his roots3 · 10%
- take root2 · 7%
- by the roots2 · 7%
- her roots2 · 7%
- among you a root1 · 3%
- was there a root1 · 3%
- upon the heels1 · 3%
- though the root1 · 3%
- we him, seeing the root1 · 3%
- my root1 · 3%
- roots1 · 3%
- the bottom1 · 3%
- it, and didst cause it to take deep1 · 3%
- but the root1 · 3%
- men: but the root1 · 3%
- so their root1 · 3%
- out of his roots1 · 3%
- there shall be a root1 · 3%
- root1 · 3%
- thy root1 · 3%
- and as a root1 · 3%
- toward him, and the roots1 · 3%
- the roots1 · 3%
- for his root1 · 3%
- of her roots1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.