G5605: ὠδίνω (ōdínō)

G5605 ὠδίνω (ōdínō)

Greek

Quick Definition

ὠδίνω v. I am in travail, suffer birth-pangs

Strong's Definition

from 5604; to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively)

KJV Usage: travail in (birth)

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ὠδίνω (G5605)

verb | ὠδίν · συνωδίνω

23.54 · Physiological Processes and States · Birth, Procreation

to have birth pains, to suffer pain in connection with giving birth, birth pains to experience pains associated with giving birth

GAL 4:27 · REV 12:2

24.87 · Sensory Events and States · Pain, Suffering

to suffer greatly, great pain (figurative extension of meaning of ὠδίνω[a] ‘to suffer birth pain,’ 23.54) to suffer intensely (similar to birth pain)

GAL 4:19

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ὠδίνω; fr. Hom. down; Sept. for 5yn, thrice for San; to feel the pains of childbirth, to travail: Gal. iv. 27; Rev. xii. 2; in fig. disc. 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, Gal. iv. 19. [Comp.: συν-ωδίνω. " ὦμος, -ov, 6, (OIQ i. q. φέρω [(?); allied w. Lat. umerus, ef. Vanicek p. 38; Curtius §487]), fr. Hom. down, the shoulder: Mt. xxiii. 4; Lk. xv. 5.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ὠδίνω ōdinō 3x

to be in travail, Gal. 4:27; Rev. 12:2; met. to travail with, suffer birth pangs, to make effort to bring to spiritual birth, Gal. 4:19*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ὠδίνω

[in LXX chiefly for חוּל, also for חבל pi., etc. ;]

to have birthpangs, to travail: Ga 4:27 (LXX), Re 12:2; metaph., Ga 4:19 (cf. συν-ωδίνω).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ὠδίνω, ‘*have birth-pangs,’” ‘‘travail’’ (Gal 457, a/.): cf. Kazbel 3211" παῦσον δ᾽ adelv[oveja, and 20. 1103", an inscr. from a Pompeian sleeping-room— Ὁ θρασὺς] ἀνθέστακεν ΕΙρως [rd Tlavl παλαίων, χἁ Κύπρις ὠιδείνει, where the editor understands ὠιδείνει as = ‘‘anxia est.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ὠδίνω (ōdinō) — be in labor. ὠδίνω [ῑ], used by early writers only in present: future ὠδῑνήσω [LXX]: aorist ὤδῑνα [LXX+3rd c.AD+]aorist middle and passive, ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην, [LXX+2nd c.AD+]:—to have the pains of childbirth, be in travail, ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα [Refs 8th c.BC+]

2. with accusative, to be in travail of a child, bring forth, [LXX+5th c.BC+]

II. metaphorically of any great pain, to be in travail or anguish, of the Cyclops, στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; labour painfully, ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of the mind, to be in the throes or agonies of thought, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥστε μ᾽ ὠδίνειν τί φῄς what you mean, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὠδίνειν εἴς τι to long painfully for a thing, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: with infinitive, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

II. b worry, fuss, ὠδίνοντα μήποτε λήγειν περὶ τοῦ σώματος [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. with accusative, to be in travail with, συμφορᾶς βάρος [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.3. Causal, cause to quiver, as in travail, φωνὴ βροντῆς ὠδίνησε γῆν [LXX+2nd c.AD+]