Reference: Poison
Easton
(1.) Heb hemah, "heat," the poison of certain venomous reptiles (De 32:24,33; Job 6:4; Ps 58:4), causing inflammation.
(2.) Heb rosh, "a head," a poisonous plant (De 29:18), growing luxuriantly (Ho 10:4), of a bitter taste (Ps 69:21; La 3:5), and coupled with wormwood; probably the poppy. This word is rendered "gall", q.v., (De 29:18; 32:33; Ps 69:21; Jer 8:14, etc.), "hemlock" (Ho 10:4; Am 6:12), and "poison" (Job 20:16), "the poison of asps," showing that the rosh was not exclusively a vegetable poison.
(3.) In Ro 3:13 (comp. Job 20:16; Ps 140:3), Jas 3:8, as the rendering of the Greek ios.
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Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;
And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.
And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,
For what are we sitting? gather ye together and we will go into the fortified cities, and we shall be silent there: for Jehovah our God caused us to cease, and he will give us to drink the water of poison, for we sinned against Jehovah.
They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field
They spake words swearing falsehood, cutting out a covenant: and judgment broke forth as the head upon the furrows of the field
Shall horses run upon the rock? will he plough with oxen? for ye turned judgment to poison and the fruit of justice to wormwood.
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:
And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison.
Fausets
chemah, from a root "to be hot" (De 32:24,33,). Ps 58:4; 140:3, "of serpents." In Job 6:4 allusion is made to poisoned arrows, symbolizing the burning pains which penetrated into Job's inmost parts ("spirit" as contrasted with surface flesh wounds of his body). Pliny (xi. 115) mentions that the Scythians poisoned their arrows with viper's venom mixed with human blood; a scratch of such arrows proved fatal. Also Arab pirates on the Red Sea used poisoned arrows (texicon, or toxicum from toxon a "bow", became the term for poison, so common was the usage). The Jews never adopted the barbarous custom. Ro'sh; De 32:32; 29:18; Ps 69:21; La 3:19; Am 6:12. (See GALL.); Jer 8:14 margin.
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Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;
Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
For their vine from the vine of Sodom, And from the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes the grapes of poverty, The clusters of bitterness to them. Their wine the wrath of dragons, And the fierce head of asps.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;
And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,
For what are we sitting? gather ye together and we will go into the fortified cities, and we shall be silent there: for Jehovah our God caused us to cease, and he will give us to drink the water of poison, for we sinned against Jehovah.
Morish
The poison of serpents and of asps is used in scripture symbolically for the judgement of God and for the malignity inherent in the wicked. De 32:24,33; Job 6:4; 20:16; Ps 58:4; 140:3; Ro 3:13. The tongue is "an unruly evil, full of deadly poison." Jas 3:8. Job 6:4 apparently alludes to arrows being poisoned.
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Exhausted with hunger, consumed with burning, And bitter destruction: And I will send upon them the tooth of beasts, With the wrath of those crawlers of the dust
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are with me, which their anger drank up my spirit: the terrors of God will be prepared for me.
Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent; the poison of asps under their lips. Silence,
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:
And the tongue none of men can tame; an ungovernable evil, full of deadly poison.