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Strong's #4944 - συνωδίνω
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- to feel the pains of travail with, be in travail together
- metaph. to undergo agony (like a woman in childbirth) along with
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συνωδίνω [ῑ],
to be in travail together, ς. κακοῖς share in the agony of woes, E. Hel. 727; οἱ συνωδίνοντες ὄρνιθες Arist. EE 1240a36; οἱ ἄρρενες ταῖς θηλείαις ς. Ael. NA 3.45: — Pass., στεροπῇσι συνωδίνοντο κεραυνοί Nonn. D. 2.507.
συνωδίνω;
a. properly, to feel the pains of travail with, be in travail together: οἶδε ἐπί τῶν ζοωον τάς ὠδῖνας ὁ σύνοικος καί συνωδίνει γέ τά πολλά ὥσπερ καί ἀλεκτρυονες, Porphyry, de abstin. 3, 10; (cf. Aristotle, eth. Eud. 7, 6, p. 1240a, 36).
b. metaphorically, to undergo agony (like a woman in childbirth) along with: Romans 8:22 (where σύν refers to the several parts of which ἡ κτίσις consists, cf. Meyer at the passage); κακοῖς, Euripides, Hel. 727.
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* συν -ωδίνω ,
to be in travail together (Arist.): metapb. (Eur.), Romans 8:22.†
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With this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Timothy 5:10) = ";bring up children,"; cf. Epict. i. 23. 3 διὰ τί ἀποσυμβουλεύεις τῷ σοφῷ τεκνοτροφεῖν;
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