Rôʼsh — H7219

Definition

masculine noun

a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)

1. gall, venom, bitter, poisonous

Usually translated as

gall, hemlock, poison, venom

Origin

or rôwsh; (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as H7218

• Same as Rôʼsh (H7218)

Occurrences

Rôʼsh occurs 12 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (3), Job (1), Psalms (1), Jeremiah (3), Lamentations (2), Hosea (1), Amos (1)

• Deuteronomy 29:18 — Lest 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 (רֹ֖אשׁ) and wormwood;
• Deuteronomy 32:32 — For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall (ר֔וֹשׁ), their clusters are bitter:
• Deuteronomy 32:33 — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom (וְרֹ֥אשׁ) of asps.
• Job 20:16 — He shall suck the poison (רֹאשׁ) of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
• Psalms 69:21 — They gave me also gall (רֹ֑אשׁ) for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Jeremiah 8:14 — Why 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 (רֹ֔אשׁ) to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
• Jeremiah 9:15 — Therefore 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 (רֹֽאשׁ) to drink.
• Jeremiah 23:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall (רֹ֑אשׁ): for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
• Lamentations 3:5 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall (רֹ֥אשׁ) and travail.
• Lamentations 3:19 — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall (וָרֹֽאשׁ).
• Hosea 10:4 — They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock (כָּרֹאשׁ֙) in the furrows of the field.
• Amos 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall (לְרֹאשׁ֙), and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: