Root

'The dried up root,' as in Hosea 9:16, 17, signifies charity which could not bear fruit.

Malachi 4:1

¹ "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.