Strong G3601ὀδύνη

anguish

Transliteration
odunē
Pronunciation
od-oo'-nay
Morphology
Greek Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From G1416; grief (as dejecting): - sorrow.

Detailed definition

ὀδύνη, -ης, ἡ
[in LXX for יָגוֹן, מַר, etc. (26 words in all);]
pain, distress, of body or mind : Rom.9:2, 1Ti.6:10.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3601 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • sorrow2

First verses

  1. Romans 9:2
    That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
  2. 1 Timothy 6:10
    For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὀδῠν-η, ἡ,
pain of body, ὀδύνῃσι κακῇσι τειρόμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.440, compare 415, 17.567; ἀλεγεινή 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.398)]; ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος Ἀτρείδαο[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 268; ὀδύνῃσι πεπαρμένος 5.399; ἀντίτομα στερεᾶν ὀδυνᾶν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.221; compare ἕρμα 1.4; στρόφος μ᾽ ἔχει τὴν γαστέρ᾽.. κὠδύνη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 484, compare “Pl.” 1131: also in Prose, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.58 (_plural_), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.11.3, etc.)]
2 pain of mind, grief, distress, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, ὀ. Ἡρακλῆος)] grief for him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.25: more frequently in 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”,)] always in plural, ὀδύνας τε γόους τε κάλλιπεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1.242; ὀδύνας ἐμβάλλετε θυμῷ 2.79, +others: after 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus the _plural_ was most common in both senses, ὀ. δυσαπάλλακτοι, ἄλληκτοι, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 959, 986 (both Lyric poetry); ὀδύναις πεφυσιγγωμένοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 526)]; opposed to φιλότητες, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Sophista 49; σφαδᾳσμῶν τε καὶ ὀδυνῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 579e, compare 574a, +others)]: but the singularalso occurs, ἐξ ὀλίγης ὀ. μέγα γίνεται ἄλγος [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 12.59)]; γλώσσας ὀ. pain caused by the tongue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1142, compare 827 (both Lyric poetry), “Tr.” 975 (_anapaest meter_); ὀ. σε εἴληφε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 1.15; ὀ. μ᾽ ἔχει “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 1.3; μετ᾽ ὀδύνης 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 706)]; τοῖς νενικημένοις ὀδύνη,=Latin vae victis! [Refs 8th c.BC+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Camillus” 28. (Perh. from ἐδ- ὀδ- 'eat',compare θυμὸν ἔδων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.379: the Aeolians called τὰς ὀδύνας ἐδύνας _accusative_ to Greg.Cor. p.597 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus))]