Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7219
רֹאשׁ
roshroshe
poison
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: rôʼsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7219is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7219
a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
The King James renders it: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
rosh is rendered "poison". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
Deuteronomy 29:18רֹ֖אשׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's twelve uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- poison7
- and poison1
- and poison of1
- into poison1
- like the poisonous plant1
- poison of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- רֹ֑אשׁ2
- וְרֹ֥אשׁ1
- וָרֹֽאשׁ׃1
- כָּרֹאשׁ֙1
- לְרֹאשׁ֙1
- רֹ֖אשׁ1
- רֹ֔אשׁ1
- רֹ֥אשׁ1
- רֹאשׁ־1
- רֹֽאשׁ׃1
- ר֔וֹשׁ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
three uses
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- רֹ֖אשׁroshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- ר֔וֹשׁrooshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- וְרֹ֥אשׁveroshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and poison of
Job
one use
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- רֹאשׁ־rosh-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: poison of
Psalms
one use
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- רֹ֑אשׁroshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Jeremiah
three uses
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
- רֹ֔אשׁroshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
- רֹֽאשׁ׃roshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
- רֹ֑אשׁroshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Lamentations
two uses
He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- רֹ֥אשׁroshnoun · masculine singulartagged: poison
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- וָרֹֽאשׁ׃varoshconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and poison
Hosea
one use
They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
- כָּרֹאשׁ֙karoshpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the poisonous plant
Amos
one use
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
- לְרֹאשׁ֙leroshpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into poison
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.