Strong's #2342: chuwl (pronounced khool)
or chiyl {kheel}; a primitive root; properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert:--bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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chûl / chı̂yl
1) to twist, whirl, dance, writhe, fear, tremble, travail, be in anguish, be pained
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to dance
1a2) to twist, writhe
1a3) to whirl, whirl about
1b) (Polel)
1b1) to dance
1b2) to writhe (in travail with), bear, bring forth
1b3) to wait anxiously
1c) (Pulal)
1c1) to be made to writhe, be made to bear
1c2) to be brought forth
1d) (Hophal) to be born
1e) (Hithpolel)
1e1) whirling (participle)
1e2) writhing, suffering torture (participle)
1e3) to wait longingly
1f) (Hithpalpel) to be distressed
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 57 times:
Ezekiel 30:16: "fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder,"
Ezekiel 30:16: "fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder,"
Hosea 11:6: " shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels."
Joel 2:6: "the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness."
Micah 4:10: " Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth"
Habakkuk 3:10: "saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered"
Zechariah 9:5: "shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation"
