Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H3939
לַעֲנָה
la.a.nah · “wormwood”
Used 8 times across 5 books
Definition
1) wormwood
1a) bitterness (metaph.)
1a) bitterness (metaph.)
Where it appears
Deuteronomy1
Proverbs1
Jeremiah2
Lamentations2
Amos2
In the text
Deuteronomy 29:17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)Proverbs 5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.Jeremiah 9:14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: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:
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