Word Summary
apsinthos: wormwood
Original Word: ἄψινθοςTransliteration: apsinthos
Phonetic Spelling: (ap'-sin-thos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine; Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: wormwood
Meaning: Wormwood
Strong's Concordance
wormwood.
Of uncertain derivation; wormwood (as a type of bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) calamity) -- wormwood.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 894: ἄψινθοςἄψινθος,
ἀψινθου,
ἡ,
wormwood, Absinthe:
Revelation 8:11;
ἄψινθος ibid. is given as a proper name to the star which fell into the waters and made them bitter.