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# לַעֲנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3939

**wormwood** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wormwood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3939/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לַעֲנָה: n.f. wormwood [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3939/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wormwood (NH id.; Arabic لَعْنٌ is curse (vb. لَعَنَ id.), so Nab. לענת (vb. לען) cf. CookGloss.);—only fig. of bitter things:—of perverted justice, Am 5:7; 6:12 (‖ רֹאשׁ); of result of idolatry, Dt 29:17 (‖ id.); of י׳’s chastisement Je 9:14 (‖ מֵי־רֹאשׁ), 23:15 (‖ id.), La 3:15 (‖ מְרוֹרִים), v 19 (‖ רֹאשׁ); sim. of bitter (מָרָה) result of intercourse with strange woman Pr 5:4.—On wormwood (Artemisia absinthium,) etc., Gk. ἀψίνθιον) cf. Löw 80 f. 401, 421 TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 493.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wormwood (8).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.15/#tree)

הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he has.surfeited.me with.(the) bitter things he has.made.me.drink wormwood

*JPS 1917:* He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

[Lamentations 3:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.19/#tree)

זְכָר־עָנְיִ֥י וּמְרוּדִ֖י לַעֲנָ֥ה וָרֹֽאשׁ׃

*Word for word:* remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison

*JPS 1917:* Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3939.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3939/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).