ὠδίν

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A v. ὠδίς.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ὠδίν: ἡ, ἴδε ὠδίς.

English (Strong)

akin to ὀδύνη; a pang or throe, especially of childbirth: pain, sorrow, travail.

English (Thayer)

(ὠδίς (the earlier form; cf. Winer's Grammar, § 9,2e. N. 1), ὠδινος, ἡ, from Homer, Iliad 11,271down, the pain of childbirth, travail-pain, birth-pang: ὠδῖνες (pangs, throes, R. V. travail); German Wehen), 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 הַמָּשִׁיחַ חֶבְלֵי (see the commentaries (especially Keil) on Matthew , the passage cited), ὠδῖνες θανάτου (Tr marginal reading ᾅδου), the pangs of death, Sept. who translated the words מָוֶת חֶבְלֵי by ὠδῖνες θανάτου, deriving the word חֶבְלֵי not, as they ought, from חֶבֶל, i. e. σχοινίον 'cord', but from חֵבֶל, ὠδίς, 2 Samuel 22:6.