Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'root' occurs 68 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'root' in the standard works and contain 25% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 32:37-42 (6 in 6 verses)

Rom. 11:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:18 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 14:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 24:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 26 23 49
Deut. 1 1 2
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Job 5 6 11
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 2 1 3
Isa. 8 1 9
Jer. 2 1 3
Ezek. 1 4 5
Dan. 0 5 5
Hosea 1 1 2
Amos 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 18 5 23
BM 19 21 40
DC 4 0 4
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 68 49 117

Deut. 29:18
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

Deut. 29:28
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.

Judg. 5:14
Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

1 Kgs. 14:15
For the Lord shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the Lord to anger.

2 Kgs. 19:30
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

2 Chr. 7:20
Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 8:17
His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones.

Job 14:8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Job 18:14
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Job 18:16
His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Job 19:28
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

Job 28:9
He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Job 29:19
My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:12
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Ps. 52:5
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Ps. 80:9
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

Prov. 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Prov. 12:3
A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Prov. 12:12
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

Isa. 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 11:1
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

Isa. 11:10
And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

Isa. 14:29
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Isa. 14:30
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

Isa. 27:6
He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Isa. 37:31
And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

Isa. 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Isa. 53:2
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Jer. 1:10
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.

Jer. 12:2
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Jer. 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Ezek. 17:6
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Ezek. 17:7
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Ezek. 17:9
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

Ezek. 31:7
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

Dan. 4:15
Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:

Dan. 4:23
And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;

Dan. 4:26
And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.

Dan. 7:8
I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

Dan. 11:7
But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Amos 2:9
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Zeph. 2:4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

Mal. 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.