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Wormwood

3Greek/Hebrew entries
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Priority Greek/Hebrew Meanings

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Greek G894 ápsinthos

Original: ἄψινθος

Meaning:
of uncertain derivation; wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity):--wormwood.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity):--wormwood.

Greek G5521 cholḗ

Original: χολή

Meaning:
feminine of an equivalent perhaps akin to the same as 5514 (from the greenish hue); "gall" or bile, i.e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.):--gall.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: "gall" or bile, i.e. (by analogy) poison or an anodyne (wormwood, poppy, etc.):--gall.

Hebrew H3939 laʻănâh

Original: לַעֲנָה

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

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: hemlock, wormwood.

Verses containing this word showing 8 of 8
Deuteronomy 29:18 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; Open
Proverbs 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Open
Jeremiah 9:15 Therefore 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. Open
Jeremiah 23:15 Therefore 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. Open
Lamentations 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. Open
Lamentations 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. Open
Amos 5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, Open
Revelation 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. Open

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