{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3939",
  "lemma": "לַעֲנָה",
  "transliteration": "laʻănâh",
  "definition": "wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)",
  "kjv": "hemlock, wormwood.",
  "occurrences": 8,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לַעֲנָה n.f. wormwood"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:17",
      "text": "lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 9:14",
      "text": "Therefore the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/9?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 23:15",
      "text": "Therefore the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Amos 5:7",
      "text": "You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/5?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Amos 6:12",
      "text": "Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/6?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Proverbs 5:4",
      "text": "but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/5?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Lamentations 3:15",
      "text": "He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Lamentations 3:19",
      "text": "Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=19"
    }
  ],
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}