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Hebrew · Strong's H2479

חַלְחָלָה

chalchalahkhal-khaw-law'

writhing (in childbirth)

1890 spelling: chalchâlâh

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror

Rendered in the KJV as

(great, much) pain.

  • 4
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 4
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 4 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 4

  • וְחַלְחָלָה֙1
  • חַלְחָלָ֔ה1
  • חַלְחָלָה֙1
  • חַלְחָלָ֤ה1

How it is rendered · 2

  • anguish3
  • and anguish1

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

  • noun · feminine singular3
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 3
  • HC/Ncfsa · 1

All 4, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).