Dict: smith - WORMWOOD

smith:

WORMWOOD - W>@ - Four kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine
Artemisia nilotica , A. Judaica , A. fructicosa and A. cinerea . The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metaphorical sense. In kjv@Jeremiah:9:15 kjv@Jeremiah:23:15; kjv@Lamentations:3:15 kjv@Lamentations:3:19) wormwood is symbolical of bitter calamity and sorrow; unrighteous judges are said to "turn judgment to wormwood." kjv@Amos:5:7) The Orientals typified sorrows, cruelties and calamities of any kind by plants of a poisonous or bitter nature.