רֹאשׁrôʼsh

ראשׁ: a bitter and poisonous herb, them venom, always figurative

Pronunciation: roshe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7219

Meanings

1. a bitter and poisonous herb (Deuteronomy 29:17; Lamentations 3:19; Jeremiah 9:14)

2. venom (Deuteronomy 32:33; Job 20:16)

רוֺשׁ: poison, see II. ראֹשׁ (Deuteronomy 32:32)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 29:18 I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.
  • Deuteronomy 32:32 Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom, from the vineyards of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison, and their clusters are bitter.
  • Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
  • Job 20:16 They will suck the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them.
  • Psalms 69:21 But instead, they give me poison for food; they offer me sour wine for my thirst.
  • Jeremiah 8:14 “Then the people will say, ‘Why should we wait here to die? Come, let’s go to the fortified towns and die there. For the Lord our God has decreed our destruction and has given us a cup of poison to drink because we sinned against the Lord.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).