STRONGS G5605:
ὠδίνω; from
Homer down; the
Sept. for
חוּל, thrice for
חִבֵּל;
to feel the pains of childbirth, to travail:
Galatians 4:27;
Revelation 12:2; in figurative discourse, Paul uses the phrase
οὖς πάλιν ὠδίνω, i. e. whose souls I am striving with intense effort and anguish to conform to the mind of Christ,
Galatians 4:19. (Compare:
συνωδίνω.)
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