Agony
חִילStrong’s H2427chil
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chil is the Hebrew word usually translated “anguish”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.”
Meaning
- Pain, agony, sorrow, a writhing, anguishwrithing (of fear) · anguish
- Pain, agony, sorrow, a writhing, anguishwrithing (of fear) · anguish
How it's translated
- anguish 6
- in anguish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Micah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 6:10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Psalms 48:6Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 6:24We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Jeremiah 50:43The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Micah 4:9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.
Hebrew dictionary
חִיל chil · agony
1) pain, agony, sorrow, a writhing, anguish 1a) writhing (of fear) 1b) anguish Also means: chi.lah (חִילָה "agony" H2427B)
חִילָה chilah · agony
1) pain, agony, sorrow, a writhing, anguish 1a) writhing (of fear) 1b) anguish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “agony” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AG'ONY, noun
[Gr. a contest with bodily exertion; a word used to denote the athletic games, in Greece; whence anguish, solicitude; from Latin ago. Gr. to strive. See Act.]
- In strictness, pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece.
- Extreme pain of body or mind; anguish; appropriately, the pangs of death, and the sufferings of our Savior in the garden of Gethsemane. Luke 22:44
- Violent contest or striving.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.