TBESH · H3939
לַעֲנָה · la.a.nah · wormwood
1) wormwood 1a) bitterness (metaph.)
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la.a.nah H3939
לַעֲנָה (la.a.nah) means “wormwood” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
לַעֲנָה Hebrew · H3939 8 tagged occurrences in 8 verses
Pronunciation guide: lah-an-aw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV glosses: hemlock, wormwood.
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How translators render H3939
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| into wormwood | 2 |
| wormwood | 2 |
| and bitter fruit | 1 |
| as wormwood | 1 |
| the wormwood | 1 |
| with wormwood | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with wormwood | 2 |
| and wormwood | 1 |
| as wormwood | 1 |
| into hemlock | 1 |
| the wormwood | 1 |
| them with wormwood | 1 |
| to wormwood | 1 |
Verses containing H3939
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- Deuteronomy 29:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.17
- Proverbs 5:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 9:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.14
- Jeremiah 23:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
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.”
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Read word by word - Lamentations 3:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Read word by word - Amos 5:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Read word by word - Amos 6:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“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—
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