Strong G4491ῥίζα
root
- Transliteration
- rhiza
- Pronunciation
- hrid'-zah
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Apparently a primary word; a root (literally or figuratively): - root.
Detailed definition
ῥίζα, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁרַשׁ;]
a root: Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9; ἐκ ῥιζῶν, Mrk.11:20; ῥ. ἔχειν, Mat.13:6, Mrk.4:6; id. before ἐν ἑαυτῷ, figuratively, Mat.13:21, Mrk.4:17, Luk.8:13. Metaphorical (as in various senses in cl.), of cause, origin, source, etc.;
__(a) of things, ῥ. πάντων τ. κακῶν (Eur.), 1Ti.6:10;
__(b) of persons: of ancestors, Rom.11:16-18; ῥ. πικρίας, Heb.12:15. Of that which springs from a root, a shoot; metaphorically, of offspring, Rom.15:12 (LXX) Rev.5:5 22:16.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁרַשׁ;]
a root: Mat.3:10, Luk.3:9; ἐκ ῥιζῶν, Mrk.11:20; ῥ. ἔχειν, Mat.13:6, Mrk.4:6; id. before ἐν ἑαυτῷ, figuratively, Mat.13:21, Mrk.4:17, Luk.8:13. Metaphorical (as in various senses in cl.), of cause, origin, source, etc.;
__(a) of things, ῥ. πάντων τ. κακῶν (Eur.), 1Ti.6:10;
__(b) of persons: of ancestors, Rom.11:16-18; ῥ. πικρίας, Heb.12:15. Of that which springs from a root, a shoot; metaphorically, of offspring, Rom.15:12 (LXX) Rev.5:5 22:16.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4491 appears in 16 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- root16
First verses
- Matthew 3:10And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Matthew 13:6And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
- Matthew 13:21Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
- Mark 4:6But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
- Mark 4:17And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
- Mark 11:20And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
- Luke 3:9And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
- Luke 8:13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
- Romans 11:16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- Romans 11:17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
- Romans 11:18Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
- Romans 15:12And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
- 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
- Hebrews 12:15Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
- Revelation 5:5And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
- Revelation 22:16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ῥίζ-α, ης, ἡ:
Ionic dialect nominative ῥίζη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus, _accusative_ ῥίζην 2nd c.AD: Marcellus Sidetes Poeta Medicus 89 (before a vowel), but ῥίζαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.846 (whence _Ionic dialect_ _nominative_ ῥίζα may be inferred))]:—root, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.304, 23.196, etc.)]; used as a medicine, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.846)]; ῥ. ἐλατήριος, of a purgative medicine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.34)]: mostly in plural, roots, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.134, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.435, etc.; δένδρεα μακρὰ αὐτῇσιν ῥίζησι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.542: hence)]
2 metaphorically, roots of the eye, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.390 (but ῥίζας ἐν ὄσσοις αἱματῶπας in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 933)] probably bloodshot streaks); the roots or foundations of the earth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 19; χθόνα.. αὐταῖς ῥ. πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1047 (_anapaest meter_); ἰπούμενος ῥίζαισιν Αἰτναίαις ὕπο [prev. work] 367)]; of feathers, hair, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 518b14)]; of the teeth, [Refs ([prev. author] “GA” 789a13; γαστρὸς ῥ. ὀμφαλός [prev. author] “HA” 493a18, etc.)]
3 τὸν πόλεμον ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀνῄρηκε 'root and branch', [LXX+1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 21, compare 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus Pont. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.523f; ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀπώλεσεν LXX.Job.31.12)]; compare ῥιζόθεν, πρόρριζος.
II that from which anything springs as from a root, ῥίζαν ἀπείρου τρίταν a third continental foundation, of Libya, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.8)]; ἀστέων ῥ., of Cyrene, as the root or original of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, [Refs ([prev. work] 4.15)]; root or stock from which a family springs, ῥ. σπέρματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “O.” 2.46, compare “I.” 8(7).61, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 966, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1178, etc.)]; so, race, family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 755 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 610, “OGI” 383.31 (Nemrud Dagh, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]; συκοφάντου.. σπέρμα καὶ ῥ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.48)]; sect, party, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “contra Galilaeos” 106e; also ῥ. κακῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 912.11 (_anapaest meter_); ἀρχὴ καὶ ῥ. παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 409, cf. NT.1Tim.6.10; πηγὴ καὶ ῥ. καλοκἀγαθίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.4c; ἀρχαὶ καὶ ῥ. γῆς καὶ θαλάττης 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 353b1, etc.; compare ῥίζωμα 11.)]
II.2 base, foundation, ῥ. πάντων καὶ βάσις ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται Ti. Locrian dialect[Refs 5th c.BC+ (97e,compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 81c)]; base of a vertical pillar, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 3.23; τῶν λόφων 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 10.6.)]
II.3 in Mathematics texts, root or base of a series, Anatolius cited in [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 9)]. (Aeolic dialect βρίζα (which see): cf. Gothic waúrts, Latin radix.)
Ionic dialect nominative ῥίζη [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus, _accusative_ ῥίζην 2nd c.AD: Marcellus Sidetes Poeta Medicus 89 (before a vowel), but ῥίζαν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.846 (whence _Ionic dialect_ _nominative_ ῥίζα may be inferred))]:—root, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.304, 23.196, etc.)]; used as a medicine, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.846)]; ῥ. ἐλατήριος, of a purgative medicine, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.34)]: mostly in plural, roots, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.134, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.435, etc.; δένδρεα μακρὰ αὐτῇσιν ῥίζησι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.542: hence)]
2 metaphorically, roots of the eye, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.390 (but ῥίζας ἐν ὄσσοις αἱματῶπας in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 933)] probably bloodshot streaks); the roots or foundations of the earth, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 19; χθόνα.. αὐταῖς ῥ. πνεῦμα κραδαίνοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1047 (_anapaest meter_); ἰπούμενος ῥίζαισιν Αἰτναίαις ὕπο [prev. work] 367)]; of feathers, hair, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 251b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 518b14)]; of the teeth, [Refs ([prev. author] “GA” 789a13; γαστρὸς ῥ. ὀμφαλός [prev. author] “HA” 493a18, etc.)]
3 τὸν πόλεμον ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀνῄρηκε 'root and branch', [LXX+1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 21, compare 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus Pont. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.523f; ἐκ ῥιζῶν ἀπώλεσεν LXX.Job.31.12)]; compare ῥιζόθεν, πρόρριζος.
II that from which anything springs as from a root, ῥίζαν ἀπείρου τρίταν a third continental foundation, of Libya, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.8)]; ἀστέων ῥ., of Cyrene, as the root or original of the Cyrenaic Pentapolis, [Refs ([prev. work] 4.15)]; root or stock from which a family springs, ῥ. σπέρματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “O.” 2.46, compare “I.” 8(7).61, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 966, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1178, etc.)]; so, race, family, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 755 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 610, “OGI” 383.31 (Nemrud Dagh, 2nd c.BC), etc.)]; συκοφάντου.. σπέρμα καὶ ῥ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.48)]; sect, party, [NT+5th c.BC+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “contra Galilaeos” 106e; also ῥ. κακῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 912.11 (_anapaest meter_); ἀρχὴ καὶ ῥ. παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 409, cf. NT.1Tim.6.10; πηγὴ καὶ ῥ. καλοκἀγαθίας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.4c; ἀρχαὶ καὶ ῥ. γῆς καὶ θαλάττης 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 353b1, etc.; compare ῥίζωμα 11.)]
II.2 base, foundation, ῥ. πάντων καὶ βάσις ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται Ti. Locrian dialect[Refs 5th c.BC+ (97e,compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 81c)]; base of a vertical pillar, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 3.23; τῶν λόφων 1st c.AD: Onosander (Onasander) Tacticus 10.6.)]
II.3 in Mathematics texts, root or base of a series, Anatolius cited in [Refs (“Theologumena Arithmeticae” 9)]. (Aeolic dialect βρίζα (which see): cf. Gothic waúrts, Latin radix.)