# ὠδίνω/ōdinō
This word describes a situation or how something is. It is a verb. However, it is not an action.

* This word can mean to suffer the pain of childbirth.
* This word can mean to experience something that is in some way like the pain of childbirth.

See: Galatians 4:19, 27; Revelation 12:2

**Advice to translators**: This type of verb describes a state of being.