Gall
מְרֹרָהStrong’s H4846merorah (me-ro-rah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Merorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bitter”, “bitter things” and “venom of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:”
Meaning
- Bitter thing, gall, poisongall, gall-bladder (seat of gall) · poison, venom · bitter thing · bitterness
How it's translated
- bitter 1
- bitter things 1
- venom of 1
- from gall-bladder his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 13:26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
- Job 20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:25It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Hebrew dictionary
מְרֹרָה merorah · gall
1) bitter thing, gall, poison 1a) gall, gall-bladder (seat of gall) 1b) poison, venom 1c) bitter thing 1d) bitterness
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.