noun · feminine
cholas
Strong’sG5521
gall, bitter herbs
stem chol-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
χολή, -ῆς, ἡ
[in LXX for רֹאשׁ, לַעֲנָה, מְרֵרָה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5521 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhol-ay'
"gall" or bile, i.e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.)
Fromfeminine of an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as 5514 (from the greenish hue);
King Jamesgall.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
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. ἀσπίδοςLXX; 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.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | cholas | cholais |
| object accusative | cholan1×χολὴν | cholain |
| direct address vocative | cholar | cholair |
| of, belonging to genitive | cholau1×χολῆς | cholaiu |
| to, for dative | chola | cholai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
chola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
cholan“gall”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 8:23“gall”eis gar cholan pikriau kai sundesmon adikiau horamō sin …For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
cholau“gall”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 27:34dōala auto pinara oinon meta cholau migorēnton; kai geuerantos ouk thelata pinara.… Him wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, He refused …