Venom
Bible Usage:
- venom used once.
- Bible Reference: Deuteronomy 32:33
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H7219 Used 1 time
VEN'OM, noun [Latin venenum, venor, to hunt, to drive or chase; venio, to come. See Venus, etc.]
1. Poison; matter fatal or injurious to life. venom is generally used to express noxious matter that is applied externally, or that is discharged from animals, as that of bites and stings of serpents, scorpions, etc.; and poison, to express substances taken into the stomach.
2. Spite; malice.
VEN'OM, verb transitive To poison; to infect with venom [Little used, but envenom is in use and elegant. venom may be elegantly used in poetry.]
VEN'OMOUS, adjective
1. Poisonous; noxious to animal life; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous The sack at the base of the rattlesnake's teeth, contains venomous matter.
2. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; as a venomous progeny.
3. Spiteful; as a venomous writer.
VEN'OMOUSLY, adverb Poisonously; malignantly; spitefully.
VEN'OMOUSNESS, noun
1. Poisonousness; noxiousness to animal life.
2. Malignity; spitefulness.