Strong's #3939: la`anah (pronounced lah-an-aw')

from an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed):--hemlock, wormwood.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

la‛ănâh

1) wormwood

1a) bitterness (metaphorically)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Deuteronomy 29:18: "there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;"
Proverbs 5:4: "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword."
Jeremiah 9:15: "them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink."
Jeremiah 23:15: "the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for"
Lamentations 3:15: "He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood."
Lamentations 3:19: "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Amos 5:7: "Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,"
Amos 6:12: "into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:"