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 should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,
lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,
Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,
They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
He built against me and has circled me with bitterness and hardship.
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. So judgment springs up like hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;
But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly 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 should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Jehovah our God, to go serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,
Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
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. Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,
They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Why do we sit still? Gather yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there. For Jehovah our God has put us to silence, and has given us poisonous water to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
Remember my affliction and my wandering, as wormwood and bitterness.
Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock;
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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Exhaustion by famine, and consumption by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
"Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;
But no one can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.