H3939Noun, feminine8 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
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- Deuteronomy 29:18וְלַעֲנָה
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 5:4כַלַּעֲנָה
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
- Jeremiah 9:15לַעֲנָה
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.
- Lamentations 3:15לַעֲנָה ס
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Amos 5:7לְלַעֲנָה
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.