Words the Bible translates as be in labor
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ḥulחוּלto writhe: to twist and convulse with pain, terror, or grief, whether in the body, the heart, or the shaking ground
+3 more meanings
- to bring forth: to give birth, or to be born, the labor-writhing carried through to the child it produces
- to dance: to whirl in a circling festal dance
- to wait, to wait longingly or in hope for someone
- ōdinōὠδίνωbe in labornot studied yet
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