Rosh רֹאשׁ
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| רֹאשׁ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | rosh |
| Strong's number | H7219 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | poison |
| Occurrences | 12 in 12 verses |
| Most frequent in | Deuteronomy (3) |
Rosh (Hebrew רֹאשׁ, Strong's H7219) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “poison”. It occurs 12 times in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | gall (9), venom (1), poison (1), hemlock (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | poison (2), gall (2), give them poisoned (2), such poisonous (1), are poisonous (1), he has given us poisoned (1), bitterness (1), like poisonous weeds (1), into poison (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Rosh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 29:18Lest 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;Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Deuteronomy 32:32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Job
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
Psalms
- Psalm 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 8:14Why 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.Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
Lamentations
- Lamentations 3:5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Hosea
- Hosea 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
Amos
- Amos 6:12Shall 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:“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).