Wormwood
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Wormwood in the Bible Dictionary
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A bitter plant
Deut 29:18
18 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;
Deuteronomy 29:18 -
Figurative
Deut 29:18; Prov 5:4; Jer 9:15; 23:15; Lam 3:19
18 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;
Deuteronomy 29:184 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Proverbs 5:415 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.
Jeremiah 9:1515 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.
Jeremiah 23:1519 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:19 -
Symbolical
Rev 8:11
11 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.
Revelation 8:11
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
