H7219 רֹאשׁ

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 12 KJV occurrences

רֹאשׁ

rôʼsh · roshe

Definition

a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)

KJV Renderings

gall, hemlock, poison, venom.

Derivation / Etymology

or רוֹשׁ; (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as H7218 (רֹאשׁ);

Sample KJV Verses (8 of 12)

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;
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:
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 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.
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.
Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Hosea 10:4They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.