WORMWOOD — a real, bitter plant (Artemisia absinthium), and already the Hebrew Bible's standing image for the bitterness that follows broken covenant and coming judgment long before this chapter names a star after it: a root bearing wormwood and gall (Deuteronomy 29:18), justice itself turned to wormwood (Amos 5:7), a people fed wormwood and given poisoned water (Jeremiah 9:15, 23:15). ⚠ NVI alone on the Spanish shelf does not simply translate the star's name — it changes it, from the botanical 'Ajenjo' (matching RV60) to the abstract 'Amargura,' Bitterness, trading the specific old image for the quality it stood for. → first discussed at Rev 8:11