2001 Translation

ŌDINAS, ōdinas

Sounds Like: oh-dee-NAS

Translations: pains of childbirth, birth pangs, labor pains, travail, anguish, distress

From the root: ὨΔΙΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers primarily to the intense pains experienced during childbirth, often translated as 'birth pangs' or 'labor pains'. Metaphorically, it can also describe any severe anguish, distress, or suffering, likening it to the pain of giving birth. It is typically used in the plural.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5604 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 2 — 9:206

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 1:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 4 Maccabees — 15:7, 16:8
• Psalms of Solomon — 3:11
• Job — 39:1, 39:2, 39:3
• Sirach — 7:27

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 2:24

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὨΔΙΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ὨΔΙΝ — pain, a pain, anguish, birth pangs, travail, distress
• ὨΔΙΝΕ — pain, pang, birth pang, labor pain, a pain, an anguish

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