Strong H7219רֹאשׁ

poison

Transliteration: rô'sh rôsh
Pronunciation: {roshe} roshe
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Apparently the same as H7218; a poisonous {plant} probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents): - {gall} {hemlock} {posion} venom.

Detailed definition

STEP sense: poison

Exact lexical definition: venom

Part of speech: noun

BDB context: רֹאשׁ and רוֹשׁ n.m . a bitter and poisonous herb, then venom , alw. fig.

In the Bible

Strong H7219 appears in 12 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

gall9
hemlock1
poison1
venom1

First verses

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 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, their clusters are bitter:
Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall 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 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 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: 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 and travail.
Lamentations 3:19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock 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, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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