Words the Bible translates as pangs
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.
- ḥevelחֶבֶלpangs: the sharp, gripping pains of childbirth, used as an image of sudden anguish
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- a cord or rope: a length of twisted fiber used to bind, lift, hold, or measure
- a measured portion of land: an allotted territory or region, marked off as if by a measuring line
- a band or company: a group of people bound together as a unit
- 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
- tsirצִירan envoy: a person formally dispatched with a message on someone else's authority, most often between rulers or nations
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- a hinge: the pivot a door swings on
- a writhing pang: the seizing, doubling-over pain of labor, or that same pain brought on by dread
- ḥilחִילwrithing pain: the doubling-over agony of childbirth, used above all for the terror that grips people when God's judgment closes in
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