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Strong's G5604 ὠδίν (odin)

Odin means “pain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5604 — cippun (“cieling”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5604
Language Greek
Linked Usages 36
Books 19

Strong's G5604 Quick Answer

Strong's G5604 ὠδίν (odin) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. odin (o-deen') n. 1. a pang or throe, especially of childbirth [akin to G3601] It has 36 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include sorrows, pains, and travail. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
odin (o-deen') n. 1. a pang or throe, especially of childbirth [akin to G3601]
Usage
36 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
sorrows, pains, and travail

Meaning and Definition

odin (o-deen') n. 1. a pang or throe, especially of childbirth [akin to G3601] KJV: pain, sorrow, travail See also: G3601

Original Word
ὠδίν
Transliteration
odin
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5604. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

labor

Usage: ὠδίν (late form of ὠδίς), -ῖνος, ἡ [in LXX for חֵבֶל חֶבֶל (and wrongly for חֶבֶל חֶבֶל, cf. Ac, l.with), חִיל, etc. ;] a birth pang, travail pain: 1Th.5:3; metaphorically, of extreme suffering, Mat.24:8, Mrk.13:8; ὠδῖνες θανάτου (Psa.18:4 מָוֶת חֶבֶל), Act.2:24.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5604 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render odin, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sorrows Matthew 24:8 pains Acts 2:24 travail 1 Thessalonians 5:3

How Strong's G5604 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 28 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5604 (ὠδίν) appears 32 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5604 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5604 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Mark 13:8 KJV

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Acts 2:24 KJV

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

Strong's G5604 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Exodus 15:14 Septuagint / Brenton

The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Philistines.

Deuteronomy 2:25 Septuagint / Brenton

Begin to put thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.

1 Kingdoms 4:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And his daughter-in-law the wife of Phinehas was with child, about to bring forth; and she heard the tidings, that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead; and she wept and was delivered, for her pains came upon her.

Strong's G5604 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

4 Maccabees 15:7 Septuagint / Brenton

and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;

4 Maccabees 15:16 Septuagint / Brenton

O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!

4 Maccabees 16:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.

Usage Excerpts

First 36 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5604.

Exodus 15:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The nations heard and were angry, pangs have seized on the dwellers among the Philistines.
Deuteronomy 2:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Begin to put thy terror and thy fear on the face of all the nations under heaven, who shall be troubled when they have heard thy name, and shall be in anguish before thee.
1 Kingdoms 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And his daughter-in-law the wife of Phinehas was with child, about to bring forth; and she heard the tidings, that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead; and she wept and was delivered, for her pains came upon her.
2 Kingdoms 22:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of death surrounded me, The agonies of death prevented me.
4 Kingdoms 19:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.
Job 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, And destruction shall come upon them, And pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
Job 39:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Say if thou knowest the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, And if thou hast marked the calving of the hinds:
Job 39:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou hast numbered the full months of their being with young, And if thou hast relieved their pangs:
Job 39:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And hast reared their young without fear; And wilt thou loosen their pangs?
Psalms 17:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of death compassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness troubled me exceedingly.
Psalms 17:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of hell came round about me: The snares of death prevented me.
Psalms 47:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Trembling took hold on them: There were the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Psalms 114:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The pangs of death compassed me; The dangers of hell found me: I found affliction and sorrow.
Isaiah 13:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
Isaiah 21:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
Isaiah 26:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And as a woman in travail draws nigh to be delivered, and cries out in her pain; so have we been to thy beloved.
Isaiah 37:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Today is a day of affliction, and reproach, and rebuke, and anger: for the pangs are come upon the travailing woman, but she has not strength to bring forth.
Isaiah 66:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Before she that travailed brought forth, before the travail pain came on, she escaped it and brought forth a male.
Jeremiah 6:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We have heard the report of them: our hands are weakened: anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 8:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the breach of the daughter of my people I have been saddened: in my perplexity pangs have seized upon me as of a woman in travail.
Jeremiah 13:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What wilt thou say when they shall visit thee, for thou didst teach them lessons for rule against thyself; shall not pangs seize thee as a woman in travail?
Jeremiah 22:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O thou that dwellest in Lebanon, making thy nest in the cedars, thou shalt groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon thee.
Jeremiah 27:43 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Ezekiel 7:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
on thee, the inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day has drawn nigh, not with tumult, nor with pangs.
Hosea 9:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
Hosea 13:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Pains as of a woman in travail shall come upon him: he is thy wise son, because he shall not stay in the destruction of thy children.
Micah 4:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now, why hast thou known calamities? was there not a king to thee? or has thy counsel perished that pangs as of a woman in travail have seized upon thee?
Nahum 2:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heartbreaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.
Matthew 24:8 New Testament, KJV
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Mark 13:8 New Testament, KJV
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Acts 2:24 New Testament, KJV
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
1 Thessalonians 5:3 New Testament, KJV
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 Maccabees 15:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and through her many pains undergone in connection with each one, was compelled to feel sympathy with them;
4 Maccabees 15:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
O thou mother, who wast tried at this time with bitterer pangs than those of parturition!
4 Maccabees 16:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Vainly, for your sakes, O sons, have I endured many pangs, and the more difficult anxieties of rearing.
Wisdom of Sirach 7:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Honor thy father with thy whole heart, And forget not the sorrows of thy mother.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5604, grouped by book.

Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nahum 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
4 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5604 FAQ

What does odin (ὠδίν) mean?

Odin (Strong's G5604) is a Greek word most simply glossed "pain". odin (o-deen') n. 1. a pang or throe, especially of childbirth [akin to G3601]

How many times is odin (ὠδίν) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 36 linked usages for Strong's G5604 across 19 books.

Where can I study odin (ὠδίν) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5604 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate odin (ὠδίν)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sorrows, pains, and travail. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5604 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5604, with linked reader references where each row is available.