συνωδίνω G4944
to labor together in birth pangs, suffer travail jointly (shared anguish or struggle)
Paul personifies creation as 'laboring together in birth pangs' until now, awaiting redemption. The verb merges shared suffering (συν) with childbirth agony (ὠδίνω), depicting cosmic groaning as collective travail toward new birth. Spanish 'sufre dolores de parto juntamente' and German 'mitseufzen' preserve the participatory anguish, framing creation's pain not as isolated but as shared labor—earth, humanity, Spirit, all groaning together toward eschatological delivery.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Rom 8:22 describes creation 'groaning together in labor pains' until the present, awaiting liberation from futility. The verb conveys both collective anguish (all creation shares the pain) and purposeful travail (pain toward birth, not mere suffering). Multilingual glosses emphasize the joint-labor dimension ('labors together,' 'sufre dolores de parto juntamente'), essential to Paul's eschatological hope grounded in corporate groaning. 1×
AR["تَتَمَخَّضُ-مَعًا"]·ben["একসঙ্গে-প্রসব-বেদনায়-কাতরায়"]·DE["mitseufzen"]·EN["labors-together"]·FR["souffrir-ensemble"]·heb["חוֹלֶלֶת-יַחַד"]·HI["प्रसव-पीड़ा-में-है"]·ID["bersama-menderita-sakit-melahirkan"]·IT["partorire-insieme"]·jav["ngraosaken-sakit-sesarengan"]·KO["함께-해산의-고통하노라"]·PT["sofre-dores-de-parto-juntamente"]·RU["до-"]·ES["sufre-dolores-de-parto-juntamente"]·SW["unaumwa-uchungu-pamoja"]·TR["birlikte-sancı-çekiyor"]·urd["درد-زہ-میں-ہے"]
Related Senses
H5971a 1. people, nation (1836×)H5973a 1. accompaniment, together with (956×)H0854 1. with (accompaniment) (665×)H1471a 1. nations, peoples (plural/collective) (466×)G3326 1. with (368×)H1285 1. covenant, pact, treaty (284×)G2453 1. Jewish person, Jew (194×)H4150 1. meeting (tent of meeting) (151×)G2992 1. people/nation (an ethnic or political community) (142×)G4862 1. (129×)G1484 1. Gentiles, non-Jewish nations (128×)H1471a 2. nation, people-group (singular) (98×)H3162b 1. together (97×)H1616 1. sojourner, resident alien (92×)H0567 1. Amorite (people group) (87×)H3064 1. Jew, Jewish person (81×)H3669a 1. Canaanite (ethnic designation) (70×)G1122 1. scribe / expert in the Law (63×)H2114a 1. stranger, foreigner (person) (54×)H5608b 1. scribe, royal secretary (48×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
συνωδίνω [ῑ], to be in travail together, σ. κακοῖς share in the agony of woes, Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἄρρενες ταῖς θηλείαις σ. Refs 2nd c.AD+:—passive, στεροπῇσι συνωδίνοντο κεραυνοί Refs 4th c.AD+