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 turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;Proverbs 5:4 · כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑הBut in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.Jeremiah 9:15 · לַֽעֲנָ֑הtherefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 says Yahweh of Armies 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.Lamentations 3:15 · לַעֲנָֽה׃ סHe has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.Lamentations 3:19 · לַעֲנָ֥הRemember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Amos 5:7 · לְלַעֲנָ֖הYou who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth:Amos 6:12 · לְלַעֲנָֽה׃Do 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;