Words the Bible translates as agony
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- basanosβάσανοςtorment: severe, consciously felt suffering, whether the agony of disease or the punishment of the dead
- ōdinὠδίνa birth pang: the gripping pain of labor, used in the New Testament as a picture of anguish that seizes suddenly and cannot be escaped
- ḥilחִילwrithing pain: the doubling-over agony of childbirth, used above all for the terror that grips people when God's judgment closes in
- shavatsשָׁבָץagonynot studied yet
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