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Lexicon :: Strong's H3939 - laʿănâ

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לַעֲנָה
Transliteration
laʿănâ
Pronunciation
lah-an-aw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse
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TWOT Reference: 1121

Strong’s Definitions

לַעֲנָה laʻănâh, lah-an-aw'; from an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed):—hemlock, wormwood.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H3939 in the following manner: wormwood (7x), hemlock (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H3939 in the following manner: wormwood (7x), hemlock (1x).

  1. wormwood

    1. bitterness (metaph.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לַעֲנָה laʻănâh, lah-an-aw'; from an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed):—hemlock, wormwood.
STRONGS H3939: Abbreviations
† לַעֲנָה noun feminine wormwood (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb054203 is curse (verb bdb054204 id.), so Nabataean לצנת (verb לען) compare CookGlossary); — only figurative of bitter things: — of perverted justice, Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12 (|| ראֹשׁ; of result of idolatry, Deuteronomy 29:17 (|| id.); of י׳'s 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 Löw80f. 401, 421 TristrNat, Hist. Bib. 493.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

29:17

Proverbs

5:4

Jeremiah

9:14; 23:15

Lamentations

3:15; 3:19

Amos

5:7; 6:12

H3939

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3939 matches the Hebrew לַעֲנָה (laʿănâ),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood H3939.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:4 -

But her end is bitter as wormwood H3939,

Sharp as a two-edged sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood H3939 and give them [fn]poisoned water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:15 -

“Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets,

‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood H3939

And make them drink [fn]poisoned water,

For from the prophets of Jerusalem

Pollution has gone forth into all the land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 -

He has saturated me with bitterness;

He has sated me with wormwood H3939.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:19 -

Zayin

Remember my affliction and my [fn]homelessness, the wormwood H3939 and gall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:7 -

For those who overturn justice into wormwood H3939

And put righteousness down to the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:12 -

Do horses run on rocks?

Or does one plow [fn]them with oxen?

Yet you have overturned justice into gall

And the fruit of righteousness into [fn]wormwood H3939,

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