'Root' in the Bible

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

No man will make himself safe through evil-doing; but the root of upright men will never be moved.

The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.

He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

The rod has come on Ephraim, their root is dry, let them have no fruit; even though they give birth, I will put to death the dearest fruit of their bodies.

The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.