rosh · poison, poisonous plant

What it means

rosh (רֹאשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “poison, poisonous plant”.

A poisonous plant; poison, also the venom of snakes.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A bitter, harmful plant.
2. Snake venom.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.

• Deuteronomy 32:32

  For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; they have bitter clusters.

• Deuteronomy 32:33

  The venom of serpents is their wine, and the cruel poison of vipers.

• Job 20:16

  The poison of vipers he will suck; the tongue of the adder will kill him.

• Psalms 69:21

  And they put in my food poison, and for my thirst they gave me to drink sour wine.

• Jeremiah 8:14

  Why are we sitting still? Gather together, and let us go into the fortified cities and be silent there; for YHWH our Elohim has silenced us and given us to drink water of poison, because we have sinned against YHWH.

• Jeremiah 9:15

  therefore thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I will feed this people wormwood, and give them to drink water of poison.

• Jeremiah 23:15

  Therefore, thus says YHWH Tsevaot concerning the prophets: Look, I am feeding them wormwood, and I will give them to drink water of poison; for from the prophets of Jerusalem godlessness has gone out into all the land.”

• Lamentations 3:5

  He has built against me and surrounded me with poison and hardship.

• Lamentations 3:19

  Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the poison.

• Hosea 10:4

  They speak words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; so judgment sprouts like poison in the furrows of the field.

• Amos 6:12

  Do horses run on the rock? Does one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;