Book of revelation what is wormwood?
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Wormwood is an angel/star from the book of Revelation. The name wormwood is a pun on a Hebrew saying: the name means curse or cursed (and can arguably be traced back to a bitter-tasting plant) and so Wormwood enacts curses in the book of Revelation however, where this occurs in the Old Testament it is almost certainly referring to a curse or to a "cursed" plant with a bitter taste.
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According to Smith's Bible dictionary:
Wormwood. Four kinds of wormwood are found in Palestine -- Artemisia nilotica, Artemisia Judaica, Artemisia fructicosa and Artemisia cinerea. The word occurs frequently in the Bible, and generally in a metaphorical sense. In Jer_9:15; Jer_23:15; Lam_3:15; Lam_3:19, wormwood is symbolical of bitter calamity and sorrow; unrighteous judges are said to "turn judgment to wormwood." Amo_5:7 The Orientals typified sorrows, cruelties and calamities of any kind by plants of a poisonous or bitter nature.
In answer to your specific question regarding:
Revelation 8:11 And the name of the star is called WORMWOOD: and the third part of the waters became WORMWOOD; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
the word is used metaphorically for the water becoming poisonous so that mankind died when they drank from third part of the waters.
Regarding:
Deuteronomy 29:18 So that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose HEART turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and WORMWOOD.
The word is also used metaphorically to indicate that worshiping false gods leads to destruction, which happened in the book of Joshua, when they ignored God's warning. It is also worth the time and effort to study those other instances mentioned by Smith to better understand what Wormwood means in it's various uses in the Bible.
This is of course from my study as a Southern Baptist of the New King James translation.
Hope this helps
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