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G894 ἄψινθος (ápsinthos)
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ἄψινθος, οῦ, ὁ n.f. & n.m. wormwood

Strong's Definition

of uncertain derivation; wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity)

KJV Usage: wormwood

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, m./f. | -ου

79.43 · Features of Objects · Sweet, Bitter, Tasteless

bitter, bitter like wormwood the taste of wormwood, a bitter-tasting herb used as a cure for intestinal worms; compare 3.21 As already noted in 3.21, the meaning of ἄψινθος in REV 8:11 is not that the waters turned into a particular plant but that the waters came to be as bitter as the plant in question.

REV 8:11

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἄψινθος apsinthos 2x

see ἀψίνθιον

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

*† ἄψινθος, -ου, ἡ

(also ἀψίνθιον, τό; ἀψινθία, ἡ),

wormwood: as a proper name, Re 8:11.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἄψινθος (apsinthos) — wormwood. Included with: ἀψίνθ-ιον, τό, wormwood, Artemisia Absinthium, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also ἄψινθος, ἡ, [NT+2nd c.AD+]; and ἀψινθία, ἡ, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. ἀψίνθιον, ={ἀβρότονον}, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+]

II.2. = Artemisia monosperma, [LXX+2nd c.AD+]

II.3. ἀ. θαλάσσιον, ={σέριφον}, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

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