[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/root.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / root [← R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/R/) # root «root» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The part of a plant that grows under the ground, holding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (a root, roots); verb (root, roots, rooted, rooting) ### meaning for a pupil 1) The part of a plant that grows under the ground, holding it in place and taking in water and minerals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m1) 2) The part of a tooth or hair under the surface that holds it in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m2) 3) The cause or origin of something: the root of the problem. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m3) 4) Roots are where a person's family comes from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m4) 5) In maths, a root of a number, like the square root: the square root of 9 is 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m5) 6) In language, a root word is the main part a longer word is built from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m6) 7) As a verb, to root for a team means to cheer for it; to root around means to search. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m7) 8) Rooted means fixed firmly in one place, as if growing there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#m8) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Sometimes the root is a plant's root, as when God uproots Israel from its land; in Hebrew study it means the basic three letters from which words grow. Interpretation: Jewish tradition reads Hebrew words through their three-letter roots, and Sefer Yetzirah builds Creation from the letters, including the root of "sefirot." In the primary lessons: In science, roots anchor plants, absorb water and minerals,, and some store food, like carrots and beetroot (potatoes are swollen stems, not roots). In maths, the square root of a number is the number that times itself gives it: √16 = 4 because 4 × 4 = 16. In English, the root word "happy" builds "unhappy" and "happiness". In everyday life, "roots" means family background. Phrases: "take root", "square root", "root word", "root for", "the root of", "grass roots". ### examples - and the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day'. — (Torah DEU.29.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x1) - Were pfodttced ; the Hebrew word BRA, is the root. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x2) - The root ספ״ר is also utilized to coin the novel metaphysical term סְפִירוֹת Sefirot, on which see SY 1:2 below. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x3) - I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed. (Writings JOB.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x4) - For it is a fire that consumeth unto destruction, and would root out all mine increase. (Writings JOB.31.12, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x5) - Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land. (Writings PSA.80.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x6) - Roots take in water from the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x7) - A carrot is a root we can eat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x8) - The square root of 25 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x9) - "Play" is the root word of "playful". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x10) - We root for our school team every match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x11) - The dog rooted around in the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x12) - The tree's roots cracked the pavement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x13) - Money was the root of the argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x14) - It seemed to be rooted into the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/#x15) ### note Countable: a root, roots. Do not confuse with "route" (a way to go), which some people pronounce the same. In maths, square root (√) is the opposite of squaring: 7² = 49, so √49 = 7. "Root for" (cheer) is mainly American; in Australia and New Zealand "root" is rude slang, so "barrack for" is used to mean "cheer for". ### In the corpora - [And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.621/) - [And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a twig shall grow forth out of his roots.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.253/) - [And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.794/) - [Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.803/) - [I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.209/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «root» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/root/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.