KJV dictionary & concordance
A bitter plant.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Hosea 10:4
Complete exact-word concordance
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
They haue spoken words, swearing falsely in making a couenant: thus iudgement springeth vp as hemlocke in the furrowes of the field.
¶ Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
¶ Shall horses runne vpon the rocke? wil one plow there with oxen? for ye haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnesse into hemlocke.
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Historical English dictionary sources
1. A plant of the genus Conium, whose leaves and root are poisonous. Also, the Cicuta maculata. 2. A tree of the genus Pinus, an evergreen. 3. A poison, an infusion or decoction of the poisonous plant. Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
