noun · feminine
ōdinas
Strong’sG5604
the pain of childbirth, severe agony
stem ōdin-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὠδίν
(late form of ὠδίς), -ῖνος, ἡ [in LXX forחֶבֶל (and wrongly forחֶבֶל, cf. Ac, l.c.), חִיל, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5604 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saido-deen'
a pang or throe, especially of childbirth
Fromakin to G3601;
King Jamespain, sorrow, travail.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(Refs, ῖνος, ἡ: Epic dialect dative plural ὠδίνεσσι Refs 3rd c.BC+: later nominative ὠδίν LXX+NT:— mostly in plural, pangs or throes of childbirth, πικρὰς ὠδῖνας ἔχουσαι Refs 8th c.BC+; τέκε.. ἐν μόναις ὠδῖσιν.. διδύμων σθένος υἱῶν at a single birth, Refs 5th c.BC+: also in singular, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 in singular also, that which is born amid throes, child, παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐμοὶ ὠδῖνα Refs 5th c.BC+; θαλλὸν ἱερὸν ἐλαίας, Λατοῦς ὠδῖνα (perhaps ὠδῖνι) φίλαν Refs; ἄπτερον ὠδῖνα τέκνων, of young birds, Refs: plural, children, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ὀρταλίχων ἁπαλὴ ὠδίς, of eggs, Refs 4th c.BC+; ὠ. Θαλάσσας, of Aphrodite, Refs; ὠδὶς μελίσσης, of honey, Refs 4th c.AD+
II metaphorically, travail, anguish, Refs 4th c.BC+: also in plural, of love, ἐμοὶ πικρὰς ὠδῖνας αὑτοῦ προσβαλὼν ἀποίχεται NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 fruit of the mind's travail, τῆς ἐμῆς ὠ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 ὠδῖνες θανάτου, ᾅδου, the bonds of death, LXX (due to confusion of Heb. [hudot]ēbel 'pang' with [hudot]èbel 'cord'),compare NT
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | ōdinas1×ὠδὶν | ōdinais |
| object accusative | ōdinan | ōdinain1×ὠδῖνας |
| direct address vocative | ōdinar | ōdinair |
| of, belonging to genitive | ōdinau | ōdinaiu2×ὠδίνων |
| to, for dative | ōdina | ōdinai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
ōdina is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
ōdinas“labor pains”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Thessalonians 5:3… aifnidios autoi epistēotō olethros hōsper tas ōdinas ta en gastra echarōnta, kai ouk …… will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they …
ōdinain“pains”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 2:24“pains”hon tos theos anastēata luarantos tain ōdinain tou thanatou, kathoti ouk ate dunatem …But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for …
ōdinaiu“birth pangs”of, belonging togenitive plural2×
Matthew 24:8“birth pangs”panteim de houteim archas ōdinaiu.All these are the beginning of birth …
Mark 13:8… seismois kata topoin, eli limois; archas ōdinaiu houteim.… famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.