Strong’s H2427 · Hebrew
חִיל
chîyl · kheel
Origin and (feminine) חִילָה; from חוּל (H2342);
Meaning a throe (expectant of childbirth)
In the King James Version pain, pang, sorrow.
In 7 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 15:14The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.
- Job 6:10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Psalms 48:6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 6:24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Jeremiah 50:43The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Micah 4:9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counseller perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.