gall

Greek Noun Female

χολή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX for רֹאשׁ, לַעֲנָה, מְרֵרָה;] gall: Mat.27:34 (here prob. = myrrh, cf. Mrk.15:23, see Swete, in l; DCG, i, 634); metaphorically, Act.8:23. (AS)

gall

Greek Noun Female

χολή, ἡ, gall, bile, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; χ. μέλαινα black, i. e. diseased, bile, [Refs 5th c.BC+] (but, ={μελαγχολία}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χολὴν ἐμεῖν, βῆξαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χολῇ ἀλείφειν, proverbial of giving one a disgust for a thing, from the custom of mothers putting gall to the nipple when the child was to be weaned, [Refs 4th c.BC+] 2) plural χολαί, gall-bladder, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; called δοχαὶ χολῆς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in singular, [Refs 4th c.BC+] 3) metaphorically (mostly in Poets) like{χόλος} (which see), bile, gall, i. e. bitter anger, wrath, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάνυ ἐστ᾽ ἤδη χ. stirs my bile, makes me sick, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπιζεῖ χ. the bile boils over, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II) ink of the cuttle-fish, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] III) in LXX = Hebrew rôsh, a poisonous plant, variously called hemlock or poppy, [LXX] IV) serpent's venom, χ. ἀσπίδος[LXX]; of the hydra's venom, [Refs 1st c.BC+] V) bitter drink, [NT] cf. Latin fel, ONorse gall, etc, 'bile, gall':—probably the name is derived from the colour of bile, and is cognate with Latin (h) olus, helvus, [Refs 1st c.BC+] gelb 'yellow', perhaps also χλόη.)

Greek

Noun Feminine

"gall" or bile, i.e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.); gall; feminine of an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as 5514 (from the greenish hue)