# רֹאשׁ (rosh)

Israeli respelling: rosh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H7219. 12 Old Testament occurrences.

a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)

King James renderings: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/rosh-h7219

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Deuteronomy 32:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/33) — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- [Job 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/16) — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- [Psalms 69:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/21) — They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
- [Jeremiah 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Jeremiah 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 o…
- [Jeremiah 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ga…
- [Lamentations 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/5) — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
- [Lamentations 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/19) — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- [Hosea 10:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…