8 occurrences

'Gall' in the Bible

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).

Verse ConceptsHuman WillFamilies, Nature OfFalse ConfidenceHeart, HumanParticipation, In SinPoisonRootsFruits Of SinBitter FoodBitterness

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,And from the fields of Gomorrah;Their grapes are grapes of poison,Their clusters, bitter.

Verse ConceptsPoisondissatisfactionBitterness

“His arrows surround me.He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;He pours out my gall on the ground.

Verse ConceptsKidneys

“The arrow is drawn forth and it comes out of his back [after passing through his body];Yes, the glittering point comes out of his gall.Terrors march in upon him;

Verse ConceptsFear Will Come

They (self-righteous hypocrites) also gave me gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food,And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Of Jesus ChristVinegarPitilessnessMessianic PropheciesPitilessness CondemnedBitter Food

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts in regard to the prophets,‘Behold, I am going to feed them [the bitterness of] wormwoodAnd make them drink the poisonous water [of gall],For from the [counterfeit] prophets of JerusalemProfaneness and ungodliness have spread into all the land.’”

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter FoodWicked ProphetsBitternessprophets

Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

Verse ConceptsWanderersBitter Foodlonliness

Do horses run on rocks?Do men plow rocks with oxen? [Of course not!]Yet you have turned justice into poisonAnd the fruit of righteousness into wormwood (bitterness),

Verse ConceptsPloughingPoisonTilling The SoilBitter FoodNo Justice

Bible Theasaurus

Freshness (1 instance)
Impudence (1 instance)
Insolence (14 instances)
Irritate (3 instances)
Rancor (1 instance)