Verses with the word root in the Apocrypha (23 verses):

1 Esdras 8:78
And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;

1 Esdras 8:87
And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land.

1 Esdras 8:88
Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us, till thou hadst left us neither root, seed, nor name?

1 Esdras 8:89
O Lord of Israel, thou art true: for we are left a root this day.

2 Esdras 3:22
Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the heart of the people with the malignity of the root; so that the good departed away, and the evil abode still.

2 Esdras 5:3
And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly.

2 Esdras 5:28
And now, O Lord, why hast thou given this one people over unto many? and upon the one root hast thou prepared others, and why hast thou scattered thy only one people among many?

2 Esdras 8:41
For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.

2 Esdras 8:53
The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten:

Wisdom of Solomon 3:15
For glorious is the fruit of good labours: and the root of wisdom shall never fall away.

Wisdom of Solomon 15:3
For to know thee is perfect righteousness: yea, to know thy power is the root of immortality.

Sirach 1:6
To whom hath the root of wisdom been revealed? or who hath known her wise counsels?

Sirach 1:20
The root of wisdom is to fear the Lord, and the branches thereof are long life.

Sirach 3:28
In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy; for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him.

Sirach 23:25
Her children shall not take root, and her branches shall bring forth no fruit.

Sirach 24:12
And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance.

Sirach 47:22
But the Lord will never leave off his mercy, neither shall any of his works perish, neither will he abolish the posterity of his elect, and the seed of him that loveth him he will not take away: wherefore he gave a remnant unto Jacob, and out of him a root unto David.

Sirach 49:7
For they entreated him evil, who nevertheless was a prophet, sanctified in his mother's womb, that he might root out, and afflict, and destroy; and that he might build up also, and plant.

1 Maccabees 1:10
And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.

1 Maccabees 2:40
And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.

1 Maccabees 3:35
To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;

2 Maccabees 8:9
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Jews; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.

2 Maccabees 12:7
And when the town was shut up, he went backward, as if he would return to root out all them of the city of Joppa.