רֹאשׁrôʼsh/roshe/
HebrewH721912 occurrences (KJV)
a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV renders it: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Where it appears
- Deut 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
- Deut 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
- Deut 32:33Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:16He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.
- Ps 69:21They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jer 8:14“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
- Jer 9:15therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jer 23:15Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
- Lam 3:5He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.
- Lam 3:19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Hos 10:4They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
- Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.