Strong G5605ὠδίνω
be in labor
- Transliteration
- ōdinō
- Pronunciation
- o-dee'-no
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
From G5604; to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively): - travail in (birth).
Detailed definition
ὠδίνω
[in LXX chiefly for חוּל, also for חָבַל pi., etc.;]
to have birthpangs, to travail: Gal.4:27 (LXX), Rev.12:2; metaphorically, Gal.4:19 (cf. συν-ωδίνω).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for חוּל, also for חָבַל pi., etc.;]
to have birthpangs, to travail: Gal.4:27 (LXX), Rev.12:2; metaphorically, Gal.4:19 (cf. συν-ωδίνω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5605 appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- birth1
- travail1
- travailest1
First verses
- Galatians 4:19My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
- Galatians 4:27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
- Revelation 12:2And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ὠδίνω [ῑ],
used by early writers only in present: future ὠδῑνήσω [LXX (LXX.Hab.3.10)]: aorist ὤδῑνα [LXX+3rd c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.561 (Jul.Aeg.), 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.5, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.56d; ὠδίνησα LXX.Psa.7.15:—so)]aorist middle and passive, ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην, [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX.Psa.113(114).7, LXX.Pro.8.25)]:—to have the pains of childbirth, be in travail, ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.269; ὠδίνειν τρομέω· χαλεπὸν βέλος Εἰλειθυίας 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 502, “Ec.” 529, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 395e, etc.)]
2 with accusative, to be in travail of a child, bring forth, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1234, LXX.Cant.8.5: of animals, ὠ. νεοττούς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.46: proverbial, ὤδινεν ὄρος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 23.)]
II metaphorically of any great pain, to be in travail or anguish, of the Cyclops, στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.415; Κύπριδι “Anthologia Graeca” 7.30 (2nd c.BC: Antipater Sidonius Epigrammaticus))]; labour painfully, ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9.363.22 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus (?)))]; of the mind, to be in the throes or agonies of thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148e, +others)]; κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 210b; ὑπὲρ δισσῶν μίαν ὠδίνειν ψυχήν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 258 (_anapaest meter_))]; ὥστε μ᾽ ὠδίνειν τί φῄς what you mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 794, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 644)]; ὠδίνειν εἴς τι to long painfully for a thing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.32)]: with infinitive, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 2.21, 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 13.38, “Or.” 4.1: with _accusative_, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 10.31; ἔξοδον 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor 42.20 p.517 F.-R.)]
II.b worry, fuss, ὠδίνοντα μήποτε λήγειν περὶ τοῦ σώματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 407c.)]
II.2 with accusative, to be in travail with, συμφορᾶς βάρος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 325; τὴν καύχησιν τὴν σοφιστικήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 93, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.578 (5th c.AD: Leo Philosophus Epigrammaticus) (where ὧν is in the case of the antecedent by attraction).)]
II.3 Causal, cause to quiver, as in travail, φωνὴ βροντῆς ὠδίνησε γῆν [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.Sir.43.17(18) codex 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor)]
used by early writers only in present: future ὠδῑνήσω [LXX (LXX.Hab.3.10)]: aorist ὤδῑνα [LXX+3rd c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 7.561 (Jul.Aeg.), 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.5, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.56d; ὠδίνησα LXX.Psa.7.15:—so)]aorist middle and passive, ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην, [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX.Psa.113(114).7, LXX.Pro.8.25)]:—to have the pains of childbirth, be in travail, ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.269; ὠδίνειν τρομέω· χαλεπὸν βέλος Εἰλειθυίας 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.29, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 502, “Ec.” 529, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 395e, etc.)]
2 with accusative, to be in travail of a child, bring forth, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1234, LXX.Cant.8.5: of animals, ὠ. νεοττούς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.46: proverbial, ὤδινεν ὄρος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 23.)]
II metaphorically of any great pain, to be in travail or anguish, of the Cyclops, στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.415; Κύπριδι “Anthologia Graeca” 7.30 (2nd c.BC: Antipater Sidonius Epigrammaticus))]; labour painfully, ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] 9.363.22 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus (?)))]; of the mind, to be in the throes or agonies of thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 148e, +others)]; κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 210b; ὑπὲρ δισσῶν μίαν ὠδίνειν ψυχήν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 258 (_anapaest meter_))]; ὥστε μ᾽ ὠδίνειν τί φῄς what you mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 794, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 644)]; ὠδίνειν εἴς τι to long painfully for a thing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.32)]: with infinitive, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ ([prev. author] 2.21, 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Eclogae” 13.38, “Or.” 4.1: with _accusative_, 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 10.31; ἔξοδον 6th c.AD: Choricius Rhetor 42.20 p.517 F.-R.)]
II.b worry, fuss, ὠδίνοντα μήποτε λήγειν περὶ τοῦ σώματος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 407c.)]
II.2 with accusative, to be in travail with, συμφορᾶς βάρος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 325; τὴν καύχησιν τὴν σοφιστικήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 93, compare “Anthologia Graeca” 9.578 (5th c.AD: Leo Philosophus Epigrammaticus) (where ὧν is in the case of the antecedent by attraction).)]
II.3 Causal, cause to quiver, as in travail, φωνὴ βροντῆς ὠδίνησε γῆν [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.Sir.43.17(18) codex 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor)]