laana · wormwood

What it means

laana (לַעֲנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wormwood”.

A very bitter plant; an image of what ends in bitterness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A very bitter plant; an image of what ends in bitterness.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×2
• Amos×2

• Deuteronomy 29:18

  Beware lest there be among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart is turning away today from YHWH our Elohim to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poison and wormwood.

• Proverbs 5:4

  but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword with two edges.

• Jeremiah 9:15

  therefore thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I will feed this people wormwood, and give them to drink water of poison.

• Jeremiah 23:15

  Therefore, thus says YHWH Tsevaot concerning the prophets: Look, I am feeding them wormwood, and I will give them to drink water of poison; for from the prophets of Jerusalem godlessness has gone out into all the land.”

• Lamentations 3:15

  He has filled me with bitter things; he has made me drunk with wormwood.

• Lamentations 3:19

  Remember my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the poison.

• Amos 5:7

  Those who turn justice into wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth.

• Amos 6:12

  Do horses run on the rock? Does one plow there with oxen? For you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;