לַעֲנָהlaʻănâh/lah-an-aw'/
HebrewH39398 occurrences (KJV)
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV renders it: hemlock, wormwood.
Where it appears
- Deut 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
- Prov 5:4but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
- Jer 9:15therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
- Jer 23:15Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
- Lam 3:15He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
- Lam 3:19Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Amos 5:7You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:
- Amos 6:12Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.