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GreekG5604Noun (Feminine)

ὠδίν

ōdin

4Occurrences
G5604Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a pang or throe, especially of childbirth

akin to G3601 (ὀδύνη);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
-ῖνος, ἡ a birth pang, travail pain: metaphorically, of extreme suffering,; *ὠδῖνες θανάτου *( מָוֶת חֶבֶל).
LXX: for חֵבֶל חֶבֶל (and wrongly for חֶבֶל חֶבֶל, cf. Ac, l.with), חִיל, etc.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

ὠδίν appears 4 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Thessalonians
1
Acts
1
Matthew
1
Mark
1

Key Passages

1 Thessalonians 5:3BSB

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Acts 2:24BSB

But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.

Matthew 24:8BSB

All these are the beginning of birth pains.

Mark 13:8BSB

Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.