Strong's Lexicon

H3939

H3939 — לַעֲנָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewla`anahnoun femOccurrences: 8TWOT: 1121

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3939
Word:	לַעֲנָה
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	8
Transliteration:	la`anah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	lah-an-aw'
Meaning:	1. wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV Renderings:	hemlock, wormwood.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4442

לַעֲנָה noun feminine wormwood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2845] is curse (verb [untranscribed source text 2846] 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, Deut 29:17 (|| id.); of ׳ י's chastisement Jer 9:14 (|| מֵ֯ירֿאֹשׁ, Jer 23:15 (|| id.), Lam 3:15 (|| מְרוֺרִים), Lam 3:19 (|| ראֹשׁ); simile of bitter (מָרָה) result of intercourse with strange woman Prov 5:4. — On wormwood (Artemisia absinthium, etc., Greek ἀψίθιον) compare Löw^{80f. 401, 421} Tristr^{Nat, Hist. Bib. 493}.

לָעַע see לוע

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לענה (lah-g)

Deuteronomy 29:18

KJV: 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;gall: or, a poisonous herb: Heb. rosh

EHCC: (17). root that beareth gall ard worarei,;

Proverbs 5:4

KJV: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

EHCC: her end is bitter as wormurcod,

Jeremiah 9:15

KJV: 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.

EHCC: (14). 1 will feed them,...with וחס

Jeremiah 23:15

KJV: 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.profaneness: or, hypocrisy

EHCC: 1 will feed them with wormrocd,

Lamentations 8:15

EHCC: made me drunken with rormeood.

Amos 5:7

KJV: Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

EHCC: who turn judgment to wormecod,

Amos 6:12

KJV: Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

EHCC: the fruit of righteousness into henlot: