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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Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified (mother) cities. Let us perish there, because Jehovah our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, for we have sinned against Jehovah.
He built a wall against me, shutting me in with hardship and bitter sorrow.
They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.
Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!
Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)
But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is 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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Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
Why are we sitting still? Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified (mother) cities. Let us perish there, because Jehovah our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, for we have sinned against Jehovah.
Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.
Do horses run upon the rock? Will one plow there with cattle? You have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness)!
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 be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust.
Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
The Almighty's arrows are in me. My spirit drinks in their poison. God's terrors set themselves against me.
He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake. It is like a deaf cobra that stops its ear.
They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.
Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips. (Psalm 5:9)
But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison.