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It conveys a sense of inevitable and intense suffering that precedes a new beginning or transformation.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In ancient Greek culture, childbirth was a perilous and painful process, often used as a metaphor for any intense suffering that leads to a new creation or significant change. The metaphor of birth pangs was familiar in Jewish apocalyptic literature, symbolizing the tumultuous events leading up to the Messianic age.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>5604</b> <i>ōdín</i> – properly, the pain of childbirth (travail); (figuratively) the pain <i>necessary</i> to<i> open up</i> (introduce) something new, i.e. to bring in <i>more</i>.</p><p class="discovery">[<a href="/greek/5604.htm">5604</a> (<i>ōdín</i>) suggests <i>intense suffering</i> (similar to birth pain) – hence, "to suffer greatly, great pain" (<i>L & N</i>, 1, 24.87) like "a birth-pang, travail-pain; figuratively, extreme suffering" (<i>A-S</i>).]</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>akin to <a href="/greek/3601.htm">oduné</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>a birth pang<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>agony (1), birth pangs (2), labor pains (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 5604: ὠδίν</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ὠδίν</span></span> (<a href="/interlinear/1_thessalonians/5-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:3</a>; <a href="/interlinear/isaiah/37-3.htm">Isaiah 37:3</a>) for <span class="greek2">ὠδίς</span> (the earlier form; cf. <span class="abbreviation">Winer</span>'s Grammar, § 9, 2 e. N. 1), <span class="greek2">ὠδινος</span>, <span class="greek2">ἡ</span>, from <span class="abbreviation">Homer</span>, Iliad 11,271 down, <span class="accented">the pain of childbirth, travail-pain, birth-pang</span>: <a href="/interlinear/1_thessalonians/5-3.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:3</a>; plural <span class="greek2">ὠδῖνες</span> ((<span class="accented">pangs, throes,</span> <span class="abbreviation">R. V.</span> <span class="accented">travail</span>); German <span class="foreign">Wehen</span>), equivalent to intolerable anguish, in reference to the dire calamities which the Jews supposed would precede the advent of the Messiah, and which were called <span class="hebrew">הַמָּשִׁיחַ</span> <span class="hebrew">חֶבְלֵי</span> (see the commentaries (especially Keil) on Matthew, the passage cited), <a href="/interlinear/matthew/24-8.htm">Matthew 24:8</a>; <a href="/interlinear/mark/13-8.htm">Mark 13:8</a> (9); <span class="greek2">ὠδῖνες</span> <span class="greek2">θανάτου</span> (<span class="manuref">Tr</span> marginal reading <span class="greek2">ᾅδου</span>), the pangs of death, <a href="/interlinear/acts/2-24.htm">Acts 2:24</a>, after the <span class="manuref">Sept.</span> who translated the words <span class="hebrew">מָוֶת</span> <span class="hebrew">חֶבְלֵי</span> by <span class="greek2">ὠδῖνες</span> <span class="greek2">θανάτου</span>, deriving the word <span class="hebrew">חֶבְלֵי</span> not, as they ought, from <span class="hebrew">חֶבֶל</span>, i. e. <span class="greek2">σχοινίον</span> 'cord', but from <span class="hebrew">חֵבֶל</span>, <span class="greek2">ὠδίς</span>, <a href="/interlinear/psalms/17-5.htm">Psalm 17:5</a><FOOTNOTE:10> (<BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Ps. 18:5>); <a href="/interlinear/psalms/114-3.htm">Psalm 114:3</a><FOOTNOTE:10> (<BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Ps. 116:3>); <a href="/interlinear/2_samuel/22-6.htm">2 Samuel 22:6</a>.<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>pain, sorrow, travail. <p>Akin to <a href="/greek/3601.htm">odune</a>; a pang or throe, especially of childbirth -- pain, sorrow, travail. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/3601.htm">odune</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>ωδιν ωδίν ὠδὶν ωδινας ωδίνας ὠδῖνας ωδίνες ωδίνι ωδινων ωδίνων ὠδίνων odin odìn ōdin ōdìn odinas odînas ōdinas ōdînas odinon odínon ōdinōn ōdínōn<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/matthew/24-8.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 24:8</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural">N-GFP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/24.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ταῦτα ἀρχὴ <b>ὠδίνων</b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/24.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> are [merely] the beginning <span class="itali">of birth pangs.</span><br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/24.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> these [are] the beginning <span class="itali">of sorrows.</span><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/24-8.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> these [are] a beginning <span class="itali">of birth pains</span><p><b><a href="/text/mark/13-8.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 13:8</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural">N-GFP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/13.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">λιμοί ἀρχὴ <b>ὠδίνων</b> ταῦτα </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/mark/13.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> are [merely] the beginning <span class="itali">of birth pangs.</span><br><a href="/kjvs/mark/13.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> these [are] the beginnings <span class="itali">of sorrows.</span><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/13-8.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> famines Beginnings <span class="itali">of birth pains [are]</span> these<p><b><a href="/text/acts/2-24.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 2:24</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural">N-AFP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/2.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">λύσας τὰς <b>ὠδῖνας</b> τοῦ θανάτου</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/acts/2.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> putting an end <span class="itali">to the agony</span> of death,<br><a href="/kjvs/acts/2.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> having loosed <span class="itali">the pains</span> of death:<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/2-24.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> having loosed the <span class="itali">agony</span> of the of death<p><b><a href="/text/1_thessalonians/5-3.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">1 Thessalonians 5:3</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular">N-NFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/1_thessalonians/5.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὥσπερ ἡ <b>ὠδὶν</b> τῇ ἐν</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/1_thessalonians/5.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> like <span class="itali">labor pains</span> upon a woman with child,<br><a href="/kjvs/1_thessalonians/5.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> as <span class="itali">travail</span> upon<br><a href="/interlinear/1_thessalonians/5-3.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> as the <span class="itali">labor pains</span> to her in<p><b><a href="/greek/5604.htm">Strong's Greek 5604</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_5604.htm">4 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/o_din_5604.htm">ὠδὶν — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/o_dinas_5604.htm">ὠδῖνας — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/o_dino_n_5604.htm">ὠδίνων — 2 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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