KJV dictionary & concordance
A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an action not mechanical; venom.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Deuteronomy 32:24
Complete exact-word concordance
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
They shall bee burnt with hunger and deuoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts vpon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
1611 marginal noteHeb. burning coales.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruell venime of Aspes.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For the arrowes of the Almightie are within me, the poyson whereof drinketh vp my spirit: the terrors of God doe set themselues in aray against mee.
1611 marginal notePsal. 38.2.
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
He shall sucke the poison of Aspes: the vipers tongue shall slay him.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Their poison is like the poyson of a serpent; they are like the deafe adder that stoppeth her eare:
1611 marginal noteHeb. according to the likenesse.
1611 marginal noteOr, aspe.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
They haue sharpned their tongues like a serpent: adders poison is vnder their lips. Selah.
1611 marginal noteRom.3.14 psal.58.5.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue vsed deceit, the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes:
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euill, ful of deadly poyson.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an action not mechanical; venom.
