GALILEE, SEA OF. See SEA.
GALL (gal).
1. Mer-ay-raw' ( Heb. 717?), or mer-o-raw' (Heb. 7177), denotes etymologically "that which is bitter;" occurs in its firinzary and .15roPer mean ing, as denoting the substance secreted in the gall bladder of animals, commonly called bile, in the following passage : (Job xvi:13) ' He poureth out my gall, mererah ; Sept. Tip x0X4y ILOV, my gall ,. Vulg. viscera ntea. The metaphors in this verse are taken from the practice of huntsmen, who first surround the beast, then shoot it, and next take out the entrails. The meaning as given by Bp. Heath, is, 'he entirely destroyeth me. Job xx:14 as describing the remorse of a wicked man.
2. Roshe (Heb. tg1, or t11), generally trans lated "gall" by the A. V. is in Hos. x:4 rendered " Hemlock ; " Deut. xxxii:13 and Job xx:x6 roshe denotes the " poison " or "venom" of serpents.
It refers to 'the gall of adders,' which according to the ancients is the seat of their poison ( Plin. Hist. Nat. ii :37). See, also, Job xx :25. where, to describe the certainty of a wicked man's destruc tion, it is said, 'the glittering sword cometh out of his gall.' Sept., out of his vitals. ln the story of To bit the gall of a fish is said to have been used to cure his father's blindness (Tobit vi :8 ; xi :to, 13). Pliny refers to the use of the same sub
stance for disea.ses of the eye. Galen and other writers praise the use of the liver of the saurus in cases of dimness of sight. J. F. D.
3. Khol-ay' (Gr. xoX7), perhaps greenish). the bitter secretion gall. It is related that the Roman soldiers offered our Lord, just before his cruci fixion, "vinegar (R. V. 'wine') mingled with gall" (Matt. xxvii 34), and "wine mingled with myrrh" Nark. xv:23). This was intended as a stupefying draught.
FiguratiVe. 0) Injustice, oppression, and like wicked works, are likened to gall ; how of fensive and detestable to God I how hurtful and ruinous to men (Dent. xxxii :32 ; Amos vi :12). (2) A state of sin is called the gall of bliter ness and "bond of iniquity" (Acts viii .23). Most grievous troubles are called "gall" (Jer. viii :14 ; ix :t5; Lam. iii :5, 19). (3) The wicked man's meat', and other outward enjoyments, are turned into the "gall of asps" within him; they tend to ruin and destroy him; and often is his conscience terribly tormented for the unlawful manner of procuring them (Job xx