Chalchâlâh — H2479

Definition

feminine noun

writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror

1. pain, trembling, terror, writhing, anguish

Usually translated as

pain

Origin

feminine from the same as H2478

• Same as Chalchûwl (H2478)

Occurrences

Chalchâlâh occurs 4 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (2), Nahum (1)

• Isaiah 21:3 — Therefore are my loins filled with pain (חַלְחָלָ֔ה): 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.
• Ezekiel 30:4 — And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain (חַלְחָלָה֙) 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.
• Ezekiel 30:9 — In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain (חַלְחָלָ֤ה) shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
• Nahum 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain (וְחַלְחָלָה֙) is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.