Lectionary Calendar
Friday, March 29th, 2024
Good Friday
There are 2 days til Easter!
Attention!
StudyLight.org has pledged to help build churches in Uganda. Help us with that pledge and support pastors in the heart of Africa.
Click here to join the effort!

Bible Dictionaries
Gall

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Search for…
or
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Prev Entry
Galilee
Next Entry
Galley
Resource Toolbox
Additional Links

A general name for anything very bitter. In Job 16:13 20:14,25 , it means the animal secretion usually called the bile. In many other places, where a different word is used in the original, it refers to some better and noxious plant, according to some, the poppy. See Deuteronomy 29:18 Jeremiah 9:15 23:15 . In Hosea 10:4 Amos 6:12 , the Hebrew word is translated "hemlock". In Matthew 27:34 , it is said they gave Jesus to drink, vinegar mixed with gall, which in Mark 15:23 , is called wine mingled with myrrh. It was probably the sour wine which the Roman soldiers used to drink, mingled with myrrh and other bitter substances, very much like the "bitters" of modern times, Psalm 69:21 . The word gall is often used figuratively for great troubles, wickedness, depravity, etc., Jeremiah 8:14 Amos 6:12 Acts 8:23 .

Bibliography Information
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Gall'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ats/​g/gall.html. 1859.
adsFree icon
Ads FreeProfile