Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3939 - לַעֲנָה laanah (wormwood)

Original Word:	לַעֲנָה
Transliteration:	laanah
Definition:	wormwood
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(lah-an-aw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

hemlock, wormwood

From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) -- hemlock, wormwood.

Englishman's Concordance

1) wormwood
1a) bitterness (metaphorically)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1121

Brown-Driver-Briggs

לַעֲנָהnoun femininewormwood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic

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).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

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

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