1) wormwood 1a) bitterness (metaph.)
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H3939 — לַעֲנָה
la.a.nah · wormwood · Hebrew/Aramaic
8 tagged verse occurrences
Deuteronomy 29:18 · וְלַעֲנָֽה׃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;Proverbs 5:4 · כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑הBut her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.Jeremiah 9:15 · לַֽעֲנָ֑הTherefore 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 23:15 · לַֽעֲנָ֔הTherefore 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 3:15 · לַעֲנָֽה׃ סHe hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.Lamentations 3:19 · לַעֲנָ֥הRemembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Amos 5:7 · לְלַעֲנָ֖הYe who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,Amos 6:12 · לְלַעֲנָֽה׃Shall 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: