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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so that {there is not} among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart} turns {today} from [being] with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.
so that {there is not} among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart} turns {today} from [being] with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.
[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;
for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah
Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
They utter words of vain oaths [when] {making covenants}, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field.
Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and [the] fruit of righteousness into wormwood!
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
but no human being is able to tame the tongue. [It is] a restless 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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so that {there is not} among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe {whose heart} turns {today} from [being] with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood.
[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;
For their vine [is] from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes [are] grapes of poison; {their clusters are bitter}. Their wine [is] the poison of snakes, and [the] deadly poison of horned vipers.
for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah
Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
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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[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;
for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear
They sharpen their tongue as [sharp as] a snake's; [the] venom of a viper [is] under their lips. Selah
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
but no human being is able to tame the tongue. [It is] a restless evil, full of deadly poison.