לַעֲנָה laʻănâh

Hebrew · Strong's H3939 · pronounced lah-an-aw' · used 8 times in 8 verses

Meaning

wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)

In the King James Version: hemlock, wormwood.

Derivation: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse;

Deuteronomy 29:18 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,
Proverbs 5:4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Jeremiah 9:15 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.
Jeremiah 23:15 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.”
Lamentations 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
Amos 5:7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Amos 6:12 “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—