Wormwood
לַעֲנָהStrong’s H3939laanah (la-a-nah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wormwood”, “into wormwood” and “like wormwood”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lest 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;”
Meaning
- Wormwoodbitterness (metaph.)
How it's translated
- wormwood 4
- into wormwood 2
- and wormwood 1
- like wormwood 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- Amos 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged 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,
Hebrew dictionary
לַעֲנָה laanah · wormwood
1) wormwood 1a) bitterness (metaph.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wormwood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WORMWOOD, noun
[G.]
A plant, the artemisia. It has a bitter nauseous taste; but it is stomachic and corroborant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.