Strong's #2427: chiyl (pronounced kheel)

and (feminine) chiylah {khee-law'}; from 2342; a throe (expectant of childbirth):--pain, pang, sorrow.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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chı̂yl / chı̂ylâh

1) pain, agony, sorrow, a writhing, anguish

1a) writhing (of fear)

1b) anguish

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2342

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Exodus 15:14: "The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Philistia."
Job 6:10: "have comfort; myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not"
Psalms 48:6: "Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail."
Jeremiah 6:24: "wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail."
Jeremiah 22:23: "gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!"
Jeremiah 50:43: "waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail."
Micah 4:9: "in thee? is thy counselor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail."