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1. laanah, 'wormwood:' used only in a figurative sense for bitterness or poison. Amos 6: 12. It is translated WORMWOOD in Deut. 29: 18; Prov. 5: 4; Jer. 9: 15; Jer. 23: 15; Lam. 3: 15, 19; Amos 5: 7. It corresponds with ἄψινθος in Rev. 8: 11.
2. rosh, some poisonous plant expressive of bitterness or poison. Hosea 10: 4. The word is elsewhere translated 'gall,' 'poison,' and 'venom.' The common hemlock is the conium maculatum; the water hemlock the cicuta virosa.