'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.