ἄψινθος
ápsinthos · G894 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Thing
- WormwoodOther useful plants9 verses
Meanings
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bitter, bitter like wormwood
The taste of wormwood, a bitter-tasting herb used as a cure for intestinal worms
ExamplesRevelation 8:11 The star is named Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὄνομαname 1
- τρίτοςthird 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- πικρία pikría · G4088 · bitterness, bitter, bitter resentment
- While ἄψινθος is the concrete plant (wormwood) used metaphorically for bitterness/calamity, πικρία is the abstract noun for bitterness itself; in contexts where ἄψινθος functions figuratively (as in Rev 8:11), πικρία could substitute as it directly denotes the bitter quality being symbolized.
In the other Testament 1 word
- לַעֲנָה laʻănâh · H3939 · wormwood
- The standard Hebrew term for wormwood, used in the LXX as the translation equivalent of ἄψινθος; both denote the bitter plant Artemisia absinthium and are used figuratively for bitterness and calamity (e.g., Deut 29:18, Prov 5:4, Jer 9:15, 23:15, Lam 3:15, 19, Amos 5:7, 6:12).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Wormwood3.21
- Used of the bitter plant itself, as of the star named Wormwood that falls upon the waters in Revelation 8:11.
- Bitter, bitter like wormwood79.43
- Used figuratively of the bitterness the star's name evokes, as the waters become wormwood and turn bitter in Revelation 8:11.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀψινθου, ἡ, wormwood, Absinthe: Rev 8:11; ἄψινθος ibid. is given as a proper name to the…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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