רֹאשׁ
rosh
“poison”
Definition
a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
or רוֹשׁ; (Deuteronomy 32:32), apparently the same as H7218 (רֹאשׁ);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
רֹאשׁ appears 9 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“Do horses gallop on the cliffs?Does one plow the sea with oxen?But you have turned justice into poisonand the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
But their vine is from the vine of Sodomand from the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poisonous;their clusters are bitter.
Their wine is the venom of serpents,the deadly poison of cobras.
They speak mere words;with false oaths they make covenants.So judgment springs uplike poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets:“I will feed them wormwoodand give them poisoned water to drink,for from the prophets of Jerusalemungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.