Word Summary
ōdinō: to have birth pangs, to travail
Original Word: ὠδίνωTransliteration: ōdinō
Phonetic Spelling: (o-dee'-no)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to have birth pangs, to travail
Meaning: to have birth pangs, to travail
Strong's Concordance
birth pains
From odin; to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively) -- travail in (birth).
see GREEK odin
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5605: ὠδίνωὠδίνω; from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
חוּל, thrice for
חִבֵּל;
to feel the pains of childbirth, to travail:
Galatians 4:27;
Revelation 12:2; in figurative discourse, Paul uses the phrase
οὖς πάλιν ὠδίνω, i. e. whose souls I am striving with intense effort and anguish to conform to the mind of Christ,
Galatians 4:19. (Compare:
συνωδίνω.)