# H3939 לַעֲנָה

לַעֲנָה (laʻănâh), Strong’s H3939: wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) KJV: hemlock, wormwood.. Occurs 8 times.

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*laʻănâh* — wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)

KJV: hemlock, wormwood.

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לַעֲנָה n.f. wormwood

## Where it occurs
- [Deuteronomy 29:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=17) — lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go…
- [Jeremiah 9:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/9?v=14) — Therefore the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and…
- [Jeremiah 23:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/23?v=15) — Therefore the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink…
- [Amos 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/5?v=7) — You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
- [Amos 6:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/6?v=12) — Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit…
- [Proverbs 5:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/5?v=4) — but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
- [Lamentations 3:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=15) — He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
- [Lamentations 3:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/lamentations/3?v=19) — Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.