chil · anguish, pangs

What it means

chil (חִיל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “anguish, pangs”.

Anguish, pains like those of a woman giving birth.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A writhing agony, like a woman in labor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pain ×4
• anguish ×2
• pangs ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Micah×1

• Exodus 15:14

  The peoples have heard; they tremble; anguish has seized the inhabitants of Philistia.

• Job 6:10

  It would still be my comfort, and I would leap in pain that does not have pity, for I have not concealed the sayings of the Holy One.

• Psalms 48:6

  Trembling seized them there, pangs like those of a woman giving birth.

• Jeremiah 6:24

  We have heard the report of it; our hands go limp; anguish has seized us, pain as of a woman giving birth.

• Jeremiah 22:23

  You who dwell in Lebanon, who nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, anguish as of a woman giving birth!

• Jeremiah 50:43

  The king of Babylon has heard the report of them, and his hands go limp; anguish has seized him, pain as of a woman giving birth.

• Micah 4:9

  Now why do you raise a shout? Is there no king in you? Or has your counselor perished, that pain has seized you like a woman giving birth?