Strong’s H3939 · Hebrew
לַעֲנָה
laʻănâh · lah-an-aw'
Origin from an unused root supposed to mean to curse;
Meaning wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
In the King James Version hemlock, wormwood.
In 8 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- Proverbs 5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
- Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Amos 5:7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- Amos 6:12Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.