hemlock, wormwood
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) -- hemlock, wormwood.
לַעֲנָה noun feminine wormwood (Late Hebrew
id.; Arabic
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is
curse (verb
id.), so Nabataean
לצנת (verb
לען) compare Cook
Glossary); — only figurative of bitter things: — of perverted justice,
Amos 5:7;
Amos 6:12 (""
ראֹשׁ; of result of idolatry,
Deuteronomy 29:17 (""
id.); of
׳יs chastisement
Jeremiah 9:14 (""
מֵ֯ירֿאֹשׁ,
Jeremiah 23:15 (""
id.),
Lamentations 3:15 (""
מְרוֺרִים),
Lamentations 3:19 (""
ראֹשׁ); simile of bitter (
מָרָה) result of intercourse with strange woman
Proverbs 5:4. — On
wormwood (Artemisia absinthium, etc., Greek
ἀψίθιον) compare Löw
80f. 401, 421 Tristr
Nat, Hist. Bib. 493.
לָעַע see לוע
לפד (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Strong's Hebrew: 3939. לַעֲנָה (laanah) — 8 Occurrences
Deuteronomy 29:18
HEB: פֹּרֶ֥ה רֹ֖אשׁ וְלַעֲנָֽה׃
NAS: poisonous fruit and wormwood.
KJV: that beareth gall and wormwood;
INT: bearing poisonous and wormwood
Proverbs 5:4
HEB: וְֽ֭אַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָ֣ה כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑ה חַ֝דָּ֗ה כְּחֶ֣רֶב
NAS: she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp
KJV: is bitter as wormwood, sharp
INT: the end is bitter wormwood Sharp sword
Jeremiah 9:15
HEB: הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה לַֽעֲנָ֑ה וְהִשְׁקִיתִ֖ים מֵי־
NAS: people, with wormwood and give
KJV: them, [even] this people, with wormwood, and give them water
INT: people this wormwood and give water
Jeremiah 23:15
HEB: מַאֲכִ֤יל אוֹתָם֙ לַֽעֲנָ֔ה וְהִשְׁקִתִ֖ים מֵי־
NAS: I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink
KJV: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink
INT: I am going to feed wormwood drink water
Lamentations 3:15
HEB: בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס
NAS: He has made me drunk with wormwood.
KJV: he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
INT: bitterness has made wormwood
Lamentations 3:19
HEB: עָנְיִ֥י וּמְרוּדִ֖י לַעֲנָ֥ה וָרֹֽאשׁ׃
NAS: and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
KJV: and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
INT: my affliction and my wandering the wormwood and bitterness
Amos 5:7
HEB: הַהֹפְכִ֥ים לְלַעֲנָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה
NAS: justice into wormwood And cast
KJV: judgment to wormwood, and leave off
INT: turn wormwood justice righteousness
Amos 6:12
HEB: וּפְרִ֥י צְדָקָ֖ה לְלַעֲנָֽה׃
NAS: of righteousness into wormwood,
KJV: of righteousness into hemlock:
INT: and the fruit of righteousness wormwood