What does Wormwood mean in the Bible?

First uses (BSB)

1. Proverbs 5:4

   in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.

2. Jeremiah 9:15

   Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

3. Jeremiah 23:15

   Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”

4. Lamentations 3:15

   He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

5. Lamentations 3:19

   Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

6. Amos 5:7

   There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

7. Amos 6:12

   “Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

8. Revelation 8:11

   The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from the bitter waters.

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