Strong’s H2427 · Hebrew

חִיל
chîyl
kheel

Definition

a throe (expectant of childbirth)

Etymology

and (feminine) חִילָה; from H2342 (חוּל);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • pain
  • pang
  • sorrow

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.