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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(yellow, bitter). The fluid secreted by the
liver
. Bitter (
Job 16:13
13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. (Job 16:13)
);
poison
(
Job 20:14,25
14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. (Job 20:14)
25
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. (Job 20:25)
;
Deut. 32:33
33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:33)
); “
hemlock
” (
Hos. 10:4
4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. (Hosea 10:4)
); probably
myrrh
(
Matt. 27:34
34
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. (Matthew 27:34)
); as in
Mark 15:23
23
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. (Mark 15:23)
; great troubles (
Jer. 8:14
14
Why 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 8:14)
;
Acts 8:23
23
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. (Acts 8:23)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
merorah
, the gall or bile of animals. It is symbolical of “bitterness:” “he poureth out my gall upon the ground” (
Job 16:13
13
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. (Job 16:13)
). It is also used for the “
poison
” of asps (
Job 20:14,25
14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. (Job 20:14)
25
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. (Job 20:25)
).
2.
rosh
,
χολή
, some exceedingly bitter or poisonous plant not definitely identified. This word is used as symbolical of “bitterness.” To turn to
idolatry
was like “a root that beareth gall and
wormwood
” (
Deut. 29:18
18
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; (Deuteronomy 29:18)
).
God
’s judgments were given them as water of gall to drink (
Jer. 8:14
14
Why 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 8:14)
;
Jer. 9:15
15
Therefore 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 9:15)
;
Jer. 23:15
15
Therefore 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. (Jeremiah 23:15)
; compare
Deut. 32:32
32
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: (Deuteronomy 32:32)
;
Lam. 3:5,19
5
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. (Lamentations 3:5)
19
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (Lamentations 3:19)
;
Amos 6:12
12
Shall 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: (Amos 6:12)
). Gall, mixed with the sour
wine
or
vinegar
drunk by the Roman soldiers, was given to those about to be crucified, for the purpose, as is now supposed, of making them the less sensitive to the torture. It was offered to the
Lord
, but refused (
Psa. 69:21
21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. (Psalm 69:21)
;
Matt. 27:34
34
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. (Matthew 27:34)
). In
Mark 15:23
23
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. (Mark 15:23)
myrrh
is read instead of gall; the meaning would be the same.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
4846
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
mrorah
Phonic:
mer-o-raw’
Meaning:
or mrowrah {mer-o-raw'}; from
4843
; properly, bitterness; concretely, a bitter thing; specifically bile; also venom (of a serpent)
KJV Usage:
bitter (thing), gall
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