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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

Greek

5604. odin -- a birth pang
... a birth pang. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: odin Phonetic Spelling:
(o-deen') Short Definition: the pain of childbirth, severe agony Definition ...
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4944. sunodino -- to be in travail together
... Word Origin from sun and odino Definition to be in travail together NASB Word Usage
suffers the pains of childbirth (2), together* (1). suffer together. ...
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4416a. prototokos -- first-born
... Word Origin from protos and tokos (childbirth, offspring); from tikto Definition
first-born NASB Word Usage firstborn (8). 4416, 4416a. prototokos. 4416b . ...
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5605. odino -- to have birth pangs, to travail
... Cognate: 5605 -- properly, travail (in childbirth), birth pangs; (figuratively)
the need to deliver something ("give birth") which completes () . See 5604 (). ...
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5042. teknogonia -- childbearing
... childbearing. From the same as teknogoneo; childbirth (parentage), ie (by implication)
maternity (the performance of maternal duties) -- childbearing. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2032. heron -- conception, pregnancy
... 2031, 2032. heron or herayon. 2033 . conception, pregnancy. Transliteration:
heron or herayon Phonetic Spelling: (hay-rone') Short Definition: childbirth. ...
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3205. yalad -- to bear, bring forth, beget
... 1), bore (85), born (73), borne (20), bring forth (5), brings forth (1), brought
them forth (1), brought forth (6), child (2), childbirth (10), children (1 ...
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2427. chil -- a writhing, anguish
... pain, pang, sorrow. And (feminine) chiylah {khee-law'}; from chuwl; a throe (expectant
of childbirth) -- pain, pang, sorrow. see HEBREW chuwl. 2426, 2427. ...
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2479. chalchalah -- anguish
... great, much pain. Feminine from the same as Chalchuwl; writhing (in childbirth);
by implication, terror -- (great, much) pain. see HEBREW Chalchuwl. ...
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Library

Whether Christ was Born Without his Mother Suffering?
... according to Gn.2:17: "In what day soever ye shall eat, ye shall [Vulg.: 'thou shalt
eat of it, thou shalt] die"; so were the pains of childbirth, according to ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ was born without.htm

Argument. From the Prison they are Led Forth with Joy into the ...
... had safely brought forth, so that she might fight with the wild beasts; from the
blood and from the midwife to the gladiator, to wash after childbirth with a ...
/.../chapter vi argument from the prison.htm

John xvi. 16, 17
... And He hath used a comparison which the Prophets also use continually, likening
despondencies to the exceeding pains of childbirth. ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of st john and hebrews/homily lxxix john xvi 16.htm

Tertullian Refutes, Physiologically, the Notion that the Soul is ...
... These gentlemen, I suppose, were too modest to come to terms with women on
the mysteries of childbirth, so well known to the latter. ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxv tertullian refutes physiologically the.htm

Would Indeed that Some Profit Might Come to Myself from this ...
... But rather than this let us suppose a happier case. The danger of childbirth is
past; a child is born to them, the very image of its parents' beauty. ...
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The Meaning
... Those pains and torments on account of which the woman in childbirth cried out,
were those severe persecutions which the primitive Church endured at the time ...
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Book iii. The Words of the Lord, I in the Father...
... not from any pre-existent matter, for all things are through the Son; not from nothing,
for the Son is from the Father's self; not by way of childbirth, for in ...
/.../hilary/the life and writings of st hilary of poitiers/book iii the words of.htm

Reasons Why Divinity Has Been Ascribed to Men.
... you think to obscure the truth, you in fact proclaim him dead, even to those who
are ignorant; and if you see the cave, you call to mind the childbirth of Rhea ...
/.../athenagoras/a plea for the christians/chapter xxx reasons why divinity has.htm

First Tractate.
... perhaps to a chain of favourable outside circumstances such as a particular diet
or, more immediately, a special organic aptitude or a wife apt to childbirth. ...
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The Gate of Nicanor, or the East Gate of the Court of Israel.
... In the gate of Nicanor, they made the suspected wife drink the bitter waters;
they purified the woman after childbirth, and the leper. ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 30 the gate of.htm

Thesaurus

Childbirth (24 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Childbirth (24 Occurrences). Matthew 24:8 but all these
miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth. (WEY). ...
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Pains (59 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together
in the pains of childbirth until this hour. (WEY NAS NIV). ...
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Labor (181 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. 5. (n.) Any pang or distress. ...
11. (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth. 12. ...
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Travail (54 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) To labor with pain; to toil. 4. (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth;
to be in labor. 5. (vt) To harass; to tire. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Midwife (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth;
a female practitioner of the obstetric art. 2. (vt) To assist in childbirth. ...
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Early (157 Occurrences)
... Matthew 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
(WEY). ... These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth. (WEY). ...
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Deliver (397 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth;
to bring forth; -- often with of. 6. (vt) To discover; to show. ...
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Miseries (4 Occurrences)
... Matthew 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
(WEY). ... These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth. (WEY). ...
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Cleanse (75 Occurrences)
... and cleanse them" (Numbers 8:6); "and she shall be cleansed (after childbirth) from
the fountain of her blood" (Leviticus 12:7); "Cleanse it, and hallow it ...
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Shocked (8 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 13:8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them;
they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at ...
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Bible Concordance

Childbirth (24 Occurrences)

Matthew 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
(WEY)

Mark 13:8 For nation will rise in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. These miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
(WEY)

Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Galatians 4:19 you for whom I am again, as it were, undergoing the pains of childbirth, until Christ is fully formed within you.
(WEY NIV)

1 Timothy 2:15 Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.
(WEY BBE)

Revelation 12:2 and she was crying out in the pains and agony of childbirth.
(WEY BBE)

Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
(WEB BBE NAS)

Genesis 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel. And there was yet a certain distance to come to Ephrath, when Rachel travailed in childbirth; and it went hard with her in her childbearing.
(DBY)

Genesis 35:17 When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
(See NIV)

Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),
(BBE)

Exodus 1:16 When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.
(BBE NIV)

Psalms 48:6 Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
(BBE NAS)

Isaiah 13:8 Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.
(BBE)

Isaiah 21:3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.
(BBE)

Isaiah 42:14 I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.
(BBE NIV)

Jeremiah 6:24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
(BBE NAS)

Jeremiah 13:21 What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?
(BBE NAS)

Jeremiah 22:23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
(BBE NAS)

Jeremiah 30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child; wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 49:24 Damascus has grown feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 50:43 The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.
(BBE NAS)

Hosea 13:13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 4:9 Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:
(BBE NAS)

Micah 4:10 Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
(BBE NAS)

Subtopics

Childbirth

Related Terms

Pains (59 Occurrences)

Labor (181 Occurrences)

Travail (54 Occurrences)

Midwife (4 Occurrences)

Early (157 Occurrences)

Deliver (397 Occurrences)

Miseries (4 Occurrences)

Cleanse (75 Occurrences)

Shocked (8 Occurrences)