take root

The now commonly-used English idiom “take root” (for becoming firmly fixed or established) was first coined in 1560 in the Geneva Bible (in the spelling take roote). (Source: Crystal 2010, p. 274)

For other idioms in English that were coined by Bible translation, see here.

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