Sheresh means “root” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8328 שֶׁרֶשׁ (sheresh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. sheresh (sheh'-resh) n-m. 1. a root (literally or figuratively) [from H8327] It has 32 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include heels, bottom, and deep. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
sheresh (sheh'-resh) n-m. 1. a root (literally or figuratively) [from H8327] KJV: bottom, deep, heel, root. Root(s): H8327
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root
Usage: 1) root 1a) root (literal) 1b) root (of people involving firmness or permanence) (fig) 1c) root, bottom (as lowest stratum) (fig) Aramaic equivalent: sho.resh (שֹׁ֫רֶשׁ "root" H8330)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render sheresh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8328.
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
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Sheresh (Strong's H8328) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "root". sheresh (sheh'-resh) n-m. 1. a root (literally or figuratively) [from H8327]
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H8328 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8328 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as heels, bottom, and deep. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.