Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3939
לַעֲנָה
laanahlah-an-aw'
wormwood
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: laʻănâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3939is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3939
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
The King James renders it: hemlock, wormwood.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
laanah is rendered "wormwood". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 29:18Make 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,
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
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,
Deuteronomy 29:18וְלַעֲנָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's eight uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- wormwood4
- into wormwood2
- and wormwood1
- like the wormwood1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְלַעֲנָֽה׃1
- כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑ה1
- לְלַעֲנָ֖ה1
- לְלַעֲנָֽה׃1
- לַֽעֲנָ֑ה1
- לַֽעֲנָ֔ה1
- לַעֲנָ֥ה1
- לַעֲנָֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Deuteronomy
one use
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,
- וְלַעֲנָֽה׃velaanahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and wormwood
Proverbs
one use
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑הkhalaanahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: like the wormwood
Jeremiah
two uses
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.
- לַֽעֲנָ֑הlaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wormwood
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.”
- לַֽעֲנָ֔הlaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wormwood
Lamentations
two uses
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- לַעֲנָֽה׃ סlaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wormwood
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- לַעֲנָ֥הlaanahnoun · feminine singulartagged: wormwood
Amos
two uses
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
- לְלַעֲנָ֖הlelaanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into wormwood
“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—
- לְלַעֲנָֽה׃lelaanahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into wormwood
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.