experience the pains of parturition

: , ; metaph., (cf. ).† to have birthpangs, to travail Ga 4:27 Re 12:2 Ga 4:19 (LXX) συν-ωδίνω

hebbende, hebt, baren

I am in travail, suffer birth-pangs.

be in labor

to experience the pains of parturition (literally or figuratively)

travail in (birth)

ὠδίνω [in LXX chiefly for חוּל, also for חָבַל pi., etc. ;] to have birthpangs, to travail: Gal.4:27 (LXX), Rev.12:2; metaphorically, Gal.4:19 (cf. συν-ωδίνω).† (AS)