# לַעֲנָה (laanah)

Israeli respelling: la-a-nah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3939. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)

King James renderings: hemlock, wormwood.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/laanah-h3939

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/18) — 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…
- [Proverbs 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/4) — But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
- [Jeremiah 9:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/9/15) — 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 o…
- [Jeremiah 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/15) — Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of ga…
- [Lamentations 3:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/15) — He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
- [Lamentations 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/19) — Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- [Amos 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/7) — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- [Amos 6:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/12) — 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 h…