9 occurrences

'Wormwood' in the Bible

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah 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 ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

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לענה 
La`anah 
Usage: 8

ἄψινθος 
Apsinthos 
Usage: 2

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