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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Noun Strong's Number: g4491 Greek: rhiza

Root:

is used

(a) in the natural sense, Mat 3:10; 13:6, 21; Mar 4:6, 17; 11:20; Luk 3:9; 8:13;

(b) metaphorically

(1) of "cause, origin, source," said of persons, ancestors, Rom 11:16-18 (twice); of things, evils, 1Ti 6:10, RV, of the love of money as a "root" of all "kinds of evil" (marg., "evils;" AV, "evil"); bitterness, Hbr 12:15;

(2) of that which springs from a "root," a shoot, said of offspring, Rom 15:12; Rev 5:5; 22:16.

B-1 Verb Strong's Number: g4492 Greek: rhizoo

Root:

"to cause to take root," is used metaphorically in the Passive Voice in Eph 3:17, of being "rooted" in love; Col 2:7, in Christ, i.e., in the sense of being firmly planted, or established. In the Sept., Isa 40:24; Jer 12:2.

B-2 Verb Strong's Number: g1610 Greek: ekrizoo

Root:

"to root out or up" (ek, "out," and No. 1), is rendered "to root up" in Mat 13:29; 15:13; see PLUCK.

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