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Strong's #7219: ro'sh (pronounced roshe)

or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}; apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents):--gall, hemlock, poison, venom.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

rô'sh / rôsh

1) gall, venom, bitter, poisonous

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: apparently the same as H7218



Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

Deuteronomy 29:18: "lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
Deuteronomy 32:32: "and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:"
Deuteronomy 32:33: "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"
Psalms 69:21: "They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink."
Jeremiah 8:14: "the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned"
Jeremiah 9:15: "people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."
Jeremiah 23:15: "them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets"
Lamentations 3:5: "He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."
Lamentations 3:19: "mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Hosea 10:4: "a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field."
Amos 6:12: "for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"









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