Anguish
חַלְחָלָהStrong’s H2479chalchalah (chal-cha-lah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalchalah is the Hebrew word usually translated “anguish”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.”
Meaning
- Pain, trembling, terror, writhing, anguish
How it's translated
- anguish 3
- and anguish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Isaiah 1
- Nahum 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezekiel 30:4And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
- Ezekiel 30:9In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for, lo, it cometh.
- Nahum 2:10She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Hebrew dictionary
חַלְחָלָה chalchalah · anguish
pain, trembling, terror, writhing, anguish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “anguish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AN'GUISH, noun
[Latin angustia, narrowness, from pressure. See Anger.]
- “And they hearkened not to Moses, for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage” Exodus 6:9
All definitions and other forms of “anguish”
AN'GUISH, verb transitive
To distress with extreme pain or grief.
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.