Ōdínō — G5605

Definition

verb

to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively)

1. to feel the pains of childbirth, to travail
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

Usually translated as

travail in

Origin

from G5604

• ōdín (G5604)

Occurrences

Ōdínō occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Galatians (2), Revelation (1)

• Galatians 4:19 — My little children, of whom I travail in birth (ὠδίνω) again until Christ be formed in you,
• Galatians 4:27 — For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest (ὠδίνουσα) not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
• Revelation 12:2 — And she being with child cried, travailing in birth (ὠδίνουσα), and pained to be delivered.