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Lexicon :: Strong's G5605 - ōdinō

Aa
ὠδίνω
Transliteration
ōdinō (Key)
Pronunciation
o-dee'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 9:667,1353

Strong’s Definitions

ὠδίνω ōdínō, o-dee'-no; from G5604; to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively):—travail in (birth).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G5605 in the following manner: travail in birth (2x), travail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G5605 in the following manner: travail in birth (2x), travail (1x).

  1. to feel the pains of child birth, to travail

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὠδίνω ōdínō, o-dee'-no; from G5604; to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively):—travail in (birth).
STRONGS G5605:
ὠδίνω; 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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Galatians
4:19; 4:27
Revelation
12:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5605 matches the Greek ὠδίνω (ōdinō),
which occurs 16 times in 14 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:14 - The wicked conceive evil;
they are pregnant with trouble
and give birth to lies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 8:5 -

Young Women of Jerusalem

Who is this sweeping in from the desert,
leaning on her lover?

Young Woman

I aroused you under the apple tree,
where your mother gave you birth,
where in great pain she delivered you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - But now you are put to shame, city of Sidon,
for Tyre, the fortress of the sea, says,[fn]
“Now I am childless;
I have no sons or daughters.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - Just as a pregnant woman
writhes and cries out in pain as she gives birth,
so were we in your presence, LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18 - We, too, writhe in agony,
but nothing comes of our suffering.
We have not given salvation to the earth,
nor brought life into the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:10 - How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father,
‘Why was I born?’
or if it said to its mother,
‘Why did you make me this way?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2 - Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor,
and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation.
Abraham was only one man when I called him.
But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - “Sing, O childless woman,
you who have never given birth!
Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,
you who have never been in labor.
For the desolate woman now has more children
than the woman who lives with her husband,”
says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - “Before the birth pains even begin,
Jerusalem gives birth to a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8 - Who has ever seen anything as strange as this?
Who ever heard of such a thing?
Has a nation ever been born in a single day?
Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment?
But by the time Jerusalem’s[fn] birth pains begin,
her children will be born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:31 - I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor,
the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child.
It is beautiful Jerusalem[fn]
gasping for breath and crying out,
“Help! I’m being murdered!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:22 - Look! The enemy swoops down like an eagle,
spreading his wings over Bozrah.
Even the mightiest warriors will be in anguish
like a woman in labor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:10 - Writhe and groan like a woman in labor,
you people of Jerusalem,[fn]
for now you must leave this city
to live in the open country.
You will soon be sent in exile
to distant Babylon.
But the LORD will rescue you there;
he will redeem you from the grip of your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:10 - The mountains watched and trembled.
Onward swept the raging waters.
The mighty deep cried out,
lifting its hands in submission.
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