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Gall

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: G By: James P. Boyd

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(yellow, bitter). The fluid secreted by the liver. Bitter (Job 16:13¹³His 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 20:14,25¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. (Job 20:14)
²⁵It 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. 32:33³³Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:33)); “hemlock” (Hos. 10:4⁴They 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. 27:34³⁴They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. (Matthew 27:34)); as in Mark 15:23²³And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. (Mark 15:23); great troubles (Jer. 8:14¹⁴Why 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 8:23²³For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. (Acts 8:23)).

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