Gall
מְרֵרָהStrong’s H4845mererah (me-re-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mererah is the Hebrew word usually translated “gall my”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.”
Meaning
- Gall
How it's translated
- gall my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְרֵרָה mererah · gall
gall
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GALL, noun
[Gr. probably from its color.]
- In the animal economy, the bile, a bitter, a yellowish green fluid, secreted in the glandular substance of the liver.
- Any thing extremely bitter.
- Rancor; malignity.
- Anger; bitterness of mind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.