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Wormwood
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
(Eng., "absinthe"), a plant both bitter and deleterious, and growing in desolate places, figuratively suggestive of "calamity" (Lamentations 3:15 ) and injustice (Amos 5:7 ), is used in Revelation 8:11 (twice; in the 1st part as a proper name).
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Wormwood'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/w/wormwood.html. 1940.