Deu 29:18 Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,
Judg 5:14 From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley,
following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from Machir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s staff;
2Ki 19:30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Job 8:17 His roots entwine the stone heap;
he looks upon a house of stones.
Job 13:27 You put my feet in the stocks
and watch all my paths;
you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Job 14:8 Though its root grow old in the earth,
and its stump die in the soil,
Job 18:16 His roots dry up beneath,
and his branches wither above.
Job 19:28 If you say, ‘How we will pursue him!’
and, ‘The root of the matter is found in him,’
Job 28:9 “Man puts his hand to the flinty rock
and overturns mountains by the roots.
Job 29:19 my roots spread out to the waters,
with the dew all night on my branches,
Job 30:4 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food.
Job 36:30 Behold, he scatters his lightning about him
and covers the roots of the sea.
Psa 80:9 You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
Pro 12:3 No one is established by wickedness,
but the root of the righteous will never be moved.
Pro 12:12 Whoever is wicked covets the spoil of evildoers,
but the root of the righteous bears fruit.
Isa 5:24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will be as rottenness,
and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 11:1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse,
and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

Isa 11:10 In that day the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples—of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

Isa 14:29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you,
that the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
Isa 14:30 And the firstborn of the poor will graze,
and the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.
Isa 37:31 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Isa 53:2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
Jer 17:8 He is like a tree planted by water,
that sends out its roots by the stream,
and does not fear when heat comes,
for its leaves remain green,
and is not anxious in the year of drought,
for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Eze 17:6 and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.

Eze 17:7 “And there was another great eagle with great wings and much plumage, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him from the bed where it was planted, that he might water it.

Eze 17:9Say, Thus says the Lord God: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots.
Eze 31:7 It was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down
to abundant waters.

Dan 11:7 “And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.
Hos 9:16 Ephraim is stricken;
their root is dried up;
they shall bear no fruit.
Even though they give birth,
I will put their beloved children to death.
Hos 14:5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
Amo 2:9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
whose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.

Mal 4:1For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
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