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  • All we had learned about it was that it was made from the root of a plant containing a sweet juice, and that the Greek name of it was _glykyr-rhiza_, from _glykys_, sweet, and _rhiza_, root.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • "In Greek, [Greek: rhiza]" - "[Greek: riza]" with soft breath mark in original.p. 62. "shall it not be said of England?"

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • [13] Learn this word, at any rate; and if you know any Greek, learn also this group of words: "[Greek: hôs rhiza en gê dipsôsêi]," which you may chance to meet with, and even to think about, some day.

    Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • What these saw by the Light of Nature, hath here divine Authority stamped upon it; God himself asserting the same thing by his Apostle, rhiza gar pantōn tōn kakōn estin hē philarguria, The Love of Money is the Root of all Evils; which, that we may the better understand, we must consider.

    Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712

  • Root of All Evil root •Strongs 4491: rhiza, hrid´-zah; apparently a primary word; a "root"

    In The Days 2009

  • Root of All Evil root •Strongs 4491: rhiza, hrid´-zah; apparently a primary word; a "root"

    In The Days 2009

  • "Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." root •Strongs 4491: rhiza, hrid´-zah; apparently a primary word; a "root"

    In The Days 2009

  • kindbegger's diary kindbegger's Diaryland Diary licorice gets its name from the greek glyks, meaning sweet and rhiza meaning root there seems to be a battle of sorts for everyone's soul. well, mine's made out of buttercream frosting and it tastes hella good. no one has to save it! they just have to taste it.

    licorice gets its name from the greek glyks, meaning sweet and rhiza meaning root kindbegger 2006

  • * he tou thanatou arche kai rhiza tes hamartias: [1686] 1

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • But for the use of arche in the sense and with the force which we here demand for it, as "principium," not "initium" (though these Latin words do not adequately reproduce the distinction), compare the Gospel of Nicodemus, c. 25, in which Hades addresses Satan as he tou thanatou arche kai rhiza tes hamartias; and further, Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 15): ho Theos estin panton aitia kai arche; and again, Clement of Alexandria (Strom.iv. 25): ho Theos de anarchos, arche ton holon panteles.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

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