'Root' in the Bible

Be sure there is no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

The surviving remnant of the house of Israel will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

I have seen a fool taking root,but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

If you say, “How will we pursue him,since the root of the problem lies with him?”

You cleared a place for it;it took root and filled the land.

the root Your right hand has planted,the shoot that You made strong for Yourself.

Man cannot be made secure by wickedness,but the root of the righteous is immovable.

The wicked desire what evil men have,but the root of the righteous produces fruit.

On that day the root of Jessewill stand as a banner for the peoples.The nations will seek Him,and His resting place will be glorious.

Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.For a viper will come from the root of a snake,and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

Then the firstborn of the poor will be well fed,and the impoverished will lie down in safety,but I will kill your root with hunger,and your remnant will be slain.

In days to come, Jacob will take root.Israel will blossom and bloomand fill the whole world with fruit.

The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

They are barely planted, barely sown,their stem hardly takes root in the groundwhen He blows on them and they wither,and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.

He grew up before Him like a young plantand like a root out of dry ground.He didn’t have an impressive formor majesty that we should look at Him,no appearance that we should desire Him.

You planted them, and they have taken root.They have grown and produced fruit.You are ever on their lips,but far from their conscience.

I will be like the dew to Israel;he will blossom like the lilyand take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

But when the sun came up they were scorched, and since they had no root, they withered.

Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

When the sun came up, it was scorched, and since it didn’t have a root, it withered.

But they have no root in themselves; they are short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately stumble.

Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

And the seed on the rock are those who, when they hear, welcome the word with joy. Having no root, these believe for a while and depart in a time of testing.

Now if the firstfruits offered up are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,

do not brag that you are better than those branches. But if you do brag—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.

And again, Isaiah says:The root of Jesse will appear,the One who rises to rule the Gentiles;the Gentiles will hope in Him.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.

Then one of the elders said to me, “Stop crying. Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has been victorious so that He may open the scroll and its seven seals.”

“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star.”