לַעֲנָה

«לַעֲנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: wormwood — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 8 times · Key: 3939 · BDB: לַעֲנָה

Glosses

wormwood (8)

Meaning (OSHB)

wormwood tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. wormwood tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. wormwood (NH id.; Arabic لَعْنٌ is curse (vb. لَعَنَ id.), so Nab. לענת (vb. לען) cf. CookGloss.);—only fig. of bitter things:—of perverted justice, Am 5:7; 6:12 (‖ רֹאשׁ); of result of idolatry, Dt 29:17 (‖ id.); of י׳’s chastisement Je 9:14 (‖ מֵי־רֹאשׁ), 23:15 (‖ id.), La 3:15 (‖ מְרוֹרִים), v 19 (‖ רֹאשׁ); sim. of bitter (מָרָה) result of intercourse with strange woman Pr 5:4.—On wormwood (Artemisia absinthium,) etc., Gk. ἀψίνθιον) cf. Löw 80 f. 401, 421 TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 493.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «לַעֲנָה» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Lamentations 3:15

הִשְׂבִּיעַ֥נִי בַמְּרוֹרִ֖ים הִרְוַ֥נִי לַעֲנָֽה׃ס

Word for word: he has.surfeited.me with.(the) bitter things he has.made.me.drink wormwood

JPS 1917: He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19

זְכָר־עָנְיִ֥י וּמְרוּדִ֖י לַעֲנָ֥ה וָרֹֽאשׁ׃

Word for word: remember affliction my and homelessness my wormwood and poison

JPS 1917: Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.

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