Strong H2479חַלְחָלָה

anguish

Transliteration
chalchâlâh
Pronunciation
khal-khaw-law'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

Feminine from the same as H2478; writhing (in childbirth); by implication terror: - ({great} much) pain.

Detailed definition

pain, trembling, terror, writhing, anguish

In the Bible

Strong H2479 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • pain4

First verses

  1. Isaiah 21:3
    Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
  2. Ezekiel 30:4
    And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
  3. Ezekiel 30:9
    In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
  4. Nahum 2:10
    She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
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