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== Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types <ref name="term_198549" /> == | == Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types <ref name="term_198549" /> == | ||
<p> Jeremiah 9:15 (b) This is certainly a description of the bitterness which comes into the soul of those who refuse to worship the Lord, and who reject His Word. (See also Jeremiah 23:15). </p> <p> Lamentations 3:15 (b) By this we understand the great depression of spirit, and the bitterness of soul which was experienced by Jeremiah, the prophet, when he was so cruelly rejected by Israel. </p> <p> Amos 5:7 (a) The judgments of | <p> Jeremiah 9:15 (b) This is certainly a description of the bitterness which comes into the soul of those who refuse to worship the Lord, and who reject His Word. (See also Jeremiah 23:15). </p> <p> Lamentations 3:15 (b) By this we understand the great depression of spirit, and the bitterness of soul which was experienced by Jeremiah, the prophet, when he was so cruelly rejected by Israel. </p> <p> Amos 5:7 (a) The judgments of GOD were so severe, and [[Israel]] was so evil in their minds, that they were made bitter by GOD's decisions against them. </p> <p> Revelation 8:11 (b) The curses of GOD, which He will send upon this earth, are bitter to the heart and the soul of His enemies. He will make the so-called pleasures and attraction of the world bitter and offensive in the eyes of those who indulge in them. </p> <p> Revelation 17:3 (b) The Lord represents apostate [[Christendom]] as the woman. She grows wealthy, proud, arrogant, wicked and tremendously powerful by her demands upon people, and her control of the heads of government. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_69309" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_69309" /> == | ||
<p> <i> laanah, </i> ἄψινθος. This occurs in scripture only in a metaphorical sense. [[Turning]] to idolatry is compared to being a root that beareth gall and wormwood. Deuteronomy 29:18 . Some turned 'judgement to wormwood,' probably alluding to the unrighteous judges. Amos 5:7 . Because of the wickedness of His people, God said He would feed them with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15 . Jeremiah, in lamenting over the condition of Israel, compared it to being drunk with wormwood. Lamentations 3:15,19 . On the sounding of the third trumpet in the Revelation, a star named [[Wormwood]] fell from heaven, and the third part of the waters were turned to wormwood, of which many men died: the moral sources of life will become destructive. Revelation 8:10,11 . There are several species in Palestine: the <i> [[Artemisia]] absinthium </i> and <i> | <p> <i> laanah, </i> ἄψινθος. This occurs in scripture only in a metaphorical sense. [[Turning]] to idolatry is compared to being a root that beareth gall and wormwood. Deuteronomy 29:18 . Some turned 'judgement to wormwood,' probably alluding to the unrighteous judges. Amos 5:7 . Because of the wickedness of His people, God said He would feed them with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15 . Jeremiah, in lamenting over the condition of Israel, compared it to being drunk with wormwood. Lamentations 3:15,19 . On the sounding of the third trumpet in the Revelation, a star named [[Wormwood]] fell from heaven, and the third part of the waters were turned to wormwood, of which many men died: the moral sources of life will become destructive. Revelation 8:10,11 . There are several species in Palestine: the <i> [[Artemisia]] absinthium </i> and <i> A. </i> <i> chinensis </i> are the wormwood of commerce. </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37973" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37973" /> == | ||
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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_75484" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_75484" /> == | ||
<p> '''Wormwood.''' Four kinds of wormwood are found in [[Palestine]] - '''Artemisia nilotica''' , '''Artemisia Judaica''' , '''Artemisia fructicosa''' and '''Artemisia cinerea''' . The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metaphorical sense. </p> <p> In Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:19, wormwood is symbolical of '' | <p> '''Wormwood.''' Four kinds of wormwood are found in [[Palestine]] - '''Artemisia nilotica''' , '''Artemisia Judaica''' , '''Artemisia fructicosa''' and '''Artemisia cinerea''' . The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metaphorical sense. </p> <p> In Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:19, wormwood is symbolical of ''Bitter Calamity'' and [[Sorrow]] ; unrighteous judges are said to "turn judgment to wormwood." Amos 5:7 The Orientals typified ''Sorrows, Cruelties'' and ''Calamities Of Any [[Kind]] By Plants Of A Poisonous'' or ''Bitter Nature'' . </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54691" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54691" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> WORMWOOD </strong> ( <em> la‘ăn </em> <em> âh </em> , Deuteronomy 29:18 , Proverbs 5:4 , Jeremiah 9:16; Jeremiah 23:16 , Lamentations 3:15-16 , Amos 5:7; Amos 6:12 [in the last AV [Note: Authorized Version.] tr. [Note: translate or translation.] <strong> ‘hemlock’ </strong> ]; Gr. <em> apsinthos </em> , Revelation 8:11 ). <em> la‘ăn </em> <em> âh </em> was some bitter substance usually associated with <strong> gall </strong> (wh. see); it is used metaphorically for calamity and sorrow. Tradition favours some species of <em> Artemisia </em> (wormwood), of which several kinds are found in Palestine. </p> <p> E. W. G. Masterman. </p> | ||
== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79965" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79965" /> == | ||
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_195951" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_195951" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) [[Anything]] very bitter or grievous; bitterness. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_44603" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_44603" /> == | ||
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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_64292" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_64292" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> WORMWOOD, n. G. A plant, the artemisia. It has a bitter nauseous taste but it is stomachic and corroborant. </p> <p> Tree-wormwood, a species of Artemisia, with woody stalks. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57794" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57794" /> == | ||
<p> <b> | <p> <b> WORMWOOD. </b> —See Gall. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16957" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16957" /> == | ||
