is used (a) in the natural sense, Mat 3:10, Mat 13:6, Mat 13:21, Mar 4:6, Mar 4:17, Mar 11:20, Luk 3:9, Luk 8:13; (b) metaphorically (1) of "cause, origin, source," said of persons, ancestors, Rom 1:11-18 (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, Heb 12:15; (2) of that which springs from a "root," a shoot, said of offspring, Rom 15:12, Rev 5:5, Rev 22:16.
"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. "to root out or up" (ek, "out," and No. 1), is rendered "to root up" in Mat 13:29, Mat 15:13; see PLUCK.
