Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
a pang or throe, especially of childbirth
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
the spasms or pains, of a woman in travail, a birth pang, 1 Thess. 5:3; pl. met. birth throes, preliminary troubles to the development of a catastrophe, Mt. 24:8; Mk. 13:8; from the Hebrew, a stringent band, a snare, noose, Acts 2:24*
Translated in KJV as
painsorrowtravail
Etymology
akin to G3601 (ὀδύνη);
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