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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - χολή

χολή

G5521

Transliteration: cholḗ

Pronunciation: khol-ay'

Definition: gall


- Original: χολή

- Transliteration: Chole

- Phonetic: khol-ay'

- Definition:

1. bile, gall

2. in the OT used of other bitter things

a. wormwood

b. possibly myrrh

- Origin: from an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as G5514" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5514 (from the greenish hue)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Feminine of an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as G5514" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5514 (from the greenish hue); gall or bile that is (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood poppy etc.): - gall.


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