רֹאשׁ rosh
Hebrew word for “poison” · Strong’s H7219 · used 12 times in 12 verses
Meaning
gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
How it is translated
Glosses given for rosh in context, with how often each is used:
- poison 11
- like poisonous plant 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deuteronomy | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Jeremiah | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 2 | 1.3 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Deuteronomy 32 (2), Lamentations 3 (2), Deuteronomy 29 (1), Job 20 (1), Psalms 69 (1), Jeremiah 8 (1), Jeremiah 9 (1), Jeremiah 23 (1), Hosea 10 (1), Amos 6 (1)
Forms
- ראשׁ 7
- וראשׁ 2
- רושׁ 1
- כראשׁ 1
- לראשׁ 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with rosh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- לַעֲנָה laanah “wormwood” 5
- שָׁקָה shaqah “to water” 4
- פֶּתֶן peten “cobra” 2
- מַי mayim “water” 3
- הֵן hen “look!” 2
- מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 2
- צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 2
- כֹּה koh “thus” 2
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 2
- כֵּן ken “so” 2
Key verses
The verses using rosh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these…
- Deuteronomy 32:32 — 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:
- Deuteronomy 32:33 — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:16 — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 69:21 — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Jeremiah 8:14 — Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence,…
- Jeremiah 9:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15 — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the…
- Lamentations 3:5 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- Lamentations 3:19 — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Hosea 10:4 — They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Amos 6:12 — Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.