Quick Definition
ὀδύνη, ης, ἡ n.f. pain, distress
Strong's Definition
from 1416; grief (as dejecting)
KJV Usage: sorrow
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὀδύνη τῇ καρδίᾳ μου, Ro. ix. 2; ἡ κ' ταράσσεται, Jn. xiv. 1, 27; συνοχὴ καρδίας, 2 Co. 11. 4; βαρεῖν τ. καρδίας μεριμναῖς βιωτικαῖς, Lk. xxi. 34 [ef. 3 ἃ. above]; διαπρίομαι τῇ κι Acts vii. 54; συντετριμμένος τὴν κι Lk. iv. 18 RL br.; κατενύγησαν τῇ x. Acts ii. 37 [LT Tr WH τὴν x]; συνθρύπτειν τὴν x. Acts xxi. 13. €. ofa soul conscious of good or bad deeds (our conscience): 1 Jn. iii. 20 sq. (Ecel. vii. 22; so 339, Job xxvii. 6; ἡ καρδία πατάσσει τινά, 1 ὃ. xxiv. 6; 2S. xxiv. 10). 3. used of the middle or central or inmost part of any thing, even though inanimate: τῆς γῆς (which some understand of Hades, others of the sepulchre), Mt. xii. 40 (τῆς θαλάσσης, Jon. ii. 4 for 39; and for the same ἐν μέσῳ θαλάσσης, Ex. xy. 8,19; add Bar. vi. [Ep. Jer. ] 19; τῆς κλεψύδρας, Aristot. probl. 16, 8 [al. cwdia]). ΟΥ̓. Beck, Bibl. Seelenlehre, ch. iii. § 20 sqq. p. 64 sqq.; Delitzsch, Bibl. Psychologie (Leipz. 1861) iv. § 12 p. 248 sqq. [also in Herzog 2, vi. 57 sqq.]; Oehler in Herzog vi. p. 15 sqq- [also in his O. T. Theol. (ed. Day) ὃ 71]; Wit tichen in Schenkel iii. 71 sq.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὀδύνη odynē 2x
pain of body of mind; sorrow, grief, Rom. 9:2; 1 Tim. 6:10*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὀδύνη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX for יָגוֹן, מַר, etc. (26 words in all);]
pain, distress, of body or mind: Ro 9:2, I Ti 6:10.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὀδύνη may be from the root of ἔδω (cf. curae edaces in Horace), or it may be connected with δύη (Boisacq, p. 685).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὀδύνη (odunē) — anguish. ὀδῠν-η, ἡ, pain of body, ὀδύνῃσι κακῇσι τειρόμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος Ἀτρείδαο[Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. pain of mind, grief, distress, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+] grief for him, [Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, ὀδύνας τε γόους τε κάλλιπεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to φιλότητες, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: but the singularalso occurs, ἐξ ὀλίγης ὀ. μέγα γίνεται ἄλγος [Refs 6th c.BC+]; γλώσσας ὀ. pain caused by the tongue, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς νενικημένοις ὀδύνη,=Latin vae victis! [Refs 8th c.BC+]