Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And she was with child (kai en gastri exousa). Perhaps estin to be supplied or the participle used as a finite verb as in Revelation 10:2. This is the technical idiom for pregnancy as in Matthew 1:18, Matthew 1:23, etc.
Travailing in birth (wdinousa). Present active participle of wdinw, old verb (from wdin birth-pangs I Thessalonians 5:3), in N.T. only here and Galatians 4:27.
And in pain (kai basanizomenh). "And tormented" (present passive participle of basanizw, for which see already Revelation 9:5; Revelation 11:10), only here in N.T. in sense of childbirth.
To be delivered (tekein). Second aorist active infinitive of tiktw, to give birth, epexegetical use. Also in verse Revelation 12:4.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 12:2:
Galatians 4:19
Revelation 9:5
Revelation 10:2
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