Laanah לַעֲנָה
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| לַעֲנָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | laanah |
| Strong's number | H3939 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | wormwood |
| Occurrences | 8 in 8 verses |
| Most frequent in | Jeremiah (2) |
Laanah (Hebrew לַעֲנָה, Strong's H3939) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “wormwood”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) wormwood
1a) bitterness (metaph.)
1a) bitterness (metaph.)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | wormwood (7), hemlock (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | wormwood (5), into wormwood (2), bitter fruit (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Laanah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 29:18Lest 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;Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
Proverbs
- Proverbs 5:4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore 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.Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
- Jeremiah 23:15Therefore 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.Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
Lamentations
- Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Amos
- Amos 5:7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- Amos 6:12Shall 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:“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).