Strong's Concordance
Original word: לַעֲנָה
Transliteration: laanah
Definition (short): wormwood
Definition (full): wormwood
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: wormwood
NASB Translation: wormwood (8).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) -- hemlock, wormwood.
References
KJV:
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 the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
NASB:
so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
KJV:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
NASB:
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
KJV:
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 of gall to drink.
NASB:
therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
KJV:
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
NASB:
"Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets, 'Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood And make them drink poisonous water, For from the prophets of Jerusalem Pollution has gone forth into all the land.'"