Lexicon laanah: wormwood Original Word: לַעֲנָהPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: laanah Phonetic Spelling: (lah-an-aw') Short Definition: wormwood NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionwormwood NASB Translationwormwood (8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לַעֲנָה noun feminine wormwood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic  is curse (verb  id.), so Nabataean לצנת (verb לען) compare Cook Glossary); — only figurative of bitter things: — of perverted justice, Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12 ("" ראֹשׁ; of result of idolatry, Deuteronomy 29:17 ("" id.); of ׳יs chastisement Jeremiah 9:14 ("" מֵ֯ירֿאֹשׁ, Jeremiah 23:15 ("" id.), Lamentations 3:15 ("" מְרוֺרִים), Lamentations 3:19 ("" ראֹשׁ); simile of bitter ( מָרָה) result of intercourse with strange woman Proverbs 5:4. — On wormwood (Artemisia absinthium, etc., Greek ἀψίθιον) compare Löw 80f. 401, 421 Tristr Nat, Hist. Bib. 493. לָעַע see לוע לפד (√ of following; meaning unknown).
Strong's hemlock, wormwood From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) -- hemlock, wormwood. |
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