BDB9057

שׁרשׁ (apparently √ of following; Di^{Job 40:16} Buhl and others think = שׁרשׁר, √ שׁרר, compare שֹׁר, etc., Ethiopic nerve, muscle, whence שֹׁרֶשׁ as root-fibre, but word very ancient, and this der,quite unproven; Schw^{ZMG iii (1898), 140 f.} compare Arabic ( by dissimilation), thorn-bush, hard, rough, rugged (of ground), ill-natured, cross; hence שֹׁרֶשׁ, from tough, gnarled root-fibres; Late Hebrew and Phoenician שרש, Assyrian šuršu, all root, Sabean שרס (see Arabic above) root, foundation Hom^{Chr 124}, אשרס foundation DHM^{AMG xxix (1875), 606}; xxxvii (1883), 415; Aramaic שׁוֺרְשָׁא, root).

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