What does Gall mean in the Bible?

First uses (KJV)

1. Deuteronomy 29:18

   Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

2. Deuteronomy 32:32

   For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

3. Job 16:13

   His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

4. Job 20:14

   Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

5. Job 20:25

   It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

6. Psalm 69:21

   They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

7. Jeremiah 8:14

   Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

8. Jeremiah 9:15

   Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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