Dict: easton - Gall

easton:

Gall @

(1) Heb. mererah, meaning "bitterness" kjv@Job:16:13); i.e., the bile secreted in the liver. This word is also used of the poison of asps (20:14), and of the vitals, the seat of life

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(2.) Heb. rosh. In kjv@Deuteronomy:32:33 and kjv@Job:20:16 it denotes the poison of serpents. In kjv@Hosea:10:4 the Hebrew word is rendered "hemlock." The original probably denotes some bitter, poisonous plant, most probably the poppy, which grows up quickly, and is therefore coupled with wormwood kjv@Deuteronomy:29:18; kjv@Jeremiah:9:15; kjv@Lamentations:3:19). Comp. kjv@Jeremiah:8:14 kjv@Jeremiah:23:15, "water of gall," Gesenius, "poppy juice;" others, "water of hemlock," "bitter water."

(3.) Gr. chole kjv@Matthew:27:34), the LXX. translation of the Hebrew rosh in kjv@Psalms:69; 21, which foretells our Lord's sufferings. The drink offered to our Lord was vinegar (made of light wine rendered acid, the common drink of Roman soldiers) "mingled with gall," or, according to Mark (15:23), "mingled with myrrh;" both expressions meaning the same thing, namely, that the vinegar was made bitter by the infusion of wormwood or some other bitter substance, usually given, according to a merciful custom, as an anodyne to those who were crucified, to render them insensible to pain. Our Lord, knowing this, refuses to drink it. He would take nothing to cloud his faculties or blunt the pain of dying. He chooses to suffer every element of woe in the bitter cup of agony given him by the Father kjv@John:18:11).

Gallery @

(1.) Heb. 'attik kjv@Ezekiel:41:15-16), a terrace; a projection; ledge.

(2.) Heb. rahit (Cant. 1:17), translated "rafters," marg. "galleries;" probably panel-work or fretted ceiling.

Gallim @ heaps, ( kjv@1Samuel:25:44; kjv@Isaiah:10:30). The native place of Phalti, to whom Michal was given by Saul. It was probably in Benjamin, to the north of Jerusalem.

Gallio @ the elder brother of Seneca the philosopher, who was tutor and for some time minister of the emperor Nero. He was "deputy", i.e., proconsul, as in Revised Version, of Achaia, under the emperor Claudius, when Paul visited Corinth kjv@Acts:18:12). The word used here by Luke in describing the rank of Gallio shows his accuracy. Achaia was a senatorial province under Claudius, and the governor of such a province was called a "proconsul." He is spoken of by his contemporaries as "sweet Gallio," and is described as a most popular and affectionate man. When the Jews brought Paul before his tribunal on the charge of persuading "men to worship God contrary to the law" (18:13), he refused to listen to them, and "drave them from the judgment seat" (18:16).

Gallows @ Heb. 'ets, meaning "a tree" kjv@Esther:6:4), a post or gibbet. In kjv@Genesis:40:19 and kjv@Deuteronomy:21:22 the word is rendered "tree."