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Strong's #5521: chole (pronounced khol-ay')

feminine of an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as 5514 (from the greenish hue); "gall" or bile, i.e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.):--gall.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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cholē

1) bile, gall

2) in the OT used of other bitter things

2a) wormwood

2b) possibly myrrh

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as G5514 (from the greenish hue)




Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

Matthew 27:34: "to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not"
Acts 8:23: "that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity."









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