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^YLTJeremiah 9
15 Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them--this people--to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

לענה
la‛ănâh
BDB Definition:
1) wormwood
1a) bitterness (metaphorically)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong's Number: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1121

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רושׁ  /  ראשׁ
rô'sh  /  rôsh
BDB Definition:
1) gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong's Number: apparently the same as H7218
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2098

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ראשׁ
rô'sh
BDB Definition:
1) head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning
1a) head (of man, animals)
1b) top, tip (of mountain)
1c) height (of stars)
1d) chief, head (of man, city, nation, place, family, priest)
1e) head, front, beginning
1f) chief, choicest, best
1g) head, division, company, band
1h) sum
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong's Number: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2097

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רושׁ  /  ראשׁ
rô'sh  /  rôsh
BDB Definition:
1) gall, venom, bitter, poisonous
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong's Number: apparently the same as H7218
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2098

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ראשׁ
rô'sh
BDB Definition:
Rosh = "head"
1) a son of Benjamin
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

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Are the above defenitions correct?
Wormwood is often seen as a star. In the quoted verse people eat wormwood. I doubt they ate a star...

^DarbyLamentations 3
15 He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.

Drunk... sounds like fun stuff.

Rosh means head of something. In this case head of the poppy flower (opium plant).

^YLTDeuteronomy 32
32 For of the vine of Sodom their vine is , And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall--They have bitter clusters;
33 The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

(asp=serpent)

So the people of Gomorrah were drug dealers.

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^YLTRevelation 22
15 and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

φαρμακός
pharmakos
Thayer Definition:
1) pertaining to magical arts
Part of Speech: adjective
A Related Word by Thayer's/Strong's Number: the same as G5332

φαρμακεύς
pharmakeus
Thayer Definition:
1) one who prepares or uses magical remedies
2) sorcerer
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by Thayer's/Strong's Number: from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion)

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The Bible often speaks of "the water of gall" (Jer. 9:15). This is the sap or juice from a certain part of the poppy that contains opium, which is wormwood. It is very bitter in taste, and it makes people drunk, or "high." Opium was used to deaden pain, both mental and physical. They tried to give Jesus some of this to drink (Matt. 27:34) while He was on the cross. It would have deadened the pain, but Jesus refused it.

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^YLTRevelation 8
11 and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.


The ancient name of Russia is Rosh.
The Hebrew word "Rosh" in (Ezekiel 38:3) is identified with Russia, "Tubal" with Tiblisi or Tobolsk and "Meshech" with Moscow; therefore, Gog and Magog refers to Russia. (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CFoQFjAK&url=http%3A%2F%2Flivingwordbc.org%2FWord%2FAET-045-046.doc&ei=EcnPTbugOoXoOfPb9YMN&usg=AFQjCNH6FNQH8xAEksKAw0W2fAgYi1DG2g)
Experts confidently assert that "Ros (or Rosh) is the most ancient form under which history makes mention of the name Russia", and Russian historians themselves confirm this by stating that "the Russians derive their name from Ros".  (http://www.christadelphians.co.uk/bibletruth.php?pid=7)

When Jerusalem was destroyed during the days of Jeremiah, the prophet likened it to "gall and wormwood" (Jeremiah 8:14; 9:15; and Lam. 3:15, 19). In Amos 6:12-14, where wormwood is mistranslated "hemlock," it is specifically associated with a foreign invasion or oppression. Amos 5:7 says that Israel had turned judgment to wormwood.

Every war of the last century was fought over the drug trade. :sigh:

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

--Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, 1917