What Is Gall in the Bible?
Food
Something very bitter. On the cross they gave Jesus wine mixed with gall.
A detail
- Another meaning: gall is the bitter fluid in the body, next to the liver. In the Book of Tobit, the gall of a fish was used to heal eyes.
Where it appears in the Bible
Matthew 27:34; Tobit 6:9; Tobit 11:4
What the Bible says
Matthew 27:34
And they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall. And when he had tasted, he would not drink.
Tobit 6:9
And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured.
Tobit 11:4
And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take with thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias took some of that gall and departed.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Matthew 27:34; Tobit 6:5-9