Poison
רֹאשׁStrong’s H7219rosh
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rosh is the Hebrew word usually translated “poison”, “poison of” and “like poisonous plant”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lest 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;”
Meaning
- Gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
How it's translated
- poison 7
- and poison of 1
- poison of 1
- and poison 1
- like poisonous plant 1
- into poison 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Lamentations 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Hosea 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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:
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 69:21They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- 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.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
רֹאשׁ rosh · poison
gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “poison” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POISON, noun
poiz'n. [Latin pus.]
- A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an action not mechanical; venom.
- Any thing infectious, malignant, or noxious to health; as the poison of pestilential diseases.
- That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
All definitions and other forms of “poison”
POIS'ON, verb transitive
To infect with any thing fatal to life; as, to poison an arrow.
- To attack, injure or kill by poison
- To taint; to mar; to impair; as, discontent poisons the happiness of life.
- To corrupt.
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.