Strong’s H7219 · Hebrew
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
Origin or רוֹשׁ; (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as רֹאשׁ (H7218);
Meaning a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
In the King James Version gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
In 12 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
- Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Hosea 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Amos 6:12Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.