'Root' in the Bible
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.