noun · feminine
odunas
Strong’sG3601
pain, distress
stem odun-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ὀδύνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for יָגוֹן, מַר, etc. (26 words in all);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3601 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidod-oo'-nay
grief (as dejecting)
Fromfrom G1416;
King Jamessorrow.
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
pain of body, ὀδύνῃσι κακῇσι τειρόμενος Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος ἈτρείδαοRefs 5th c.BC+
2 pain of mind, grief, distress, once in Refs 8th c.BC+ grief for him, Refs 8th c.BC+ always in plural, ὀδύνας τε γόους τε κάλλιπεν Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to φιλότητες, Refs 5th c.BC+: but the singularalso occurs, ἐξ ὀλίγης ὀ. μέγα γίνεται ἄλγος Refs 6th c.BC+; γλώσσας ὀ. pain caused by the tongue, Refs 5th c.BC+; τοῖς νενικημένοις ὀδύνη,=Latin vae victis! Refs 8th c.BC+
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 | odunas1×ὀδύνη | odunais |
| object accusative | odunan | odunain |
| direct address vocative | odunar | odunair |
| of, belonging to genitive | odunau | odunaiu |
| to, for dative | oduna | odunai1×ὀδύναις |
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
oduna 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
odunas“anguish”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 9:2… lupas mi atō megas kai adialeiptas odunas ta kardia mu;I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
odunai“griefs”to, fordative plural1×
1 Timothy 6:10“griefs”… apo tau pistiau kai heautoin peripeirala odunai pollai.… wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.