# חַלְחָלָה (chalchalah)

Israeli respelling: chal-cha-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2479. 4 Old Testament occurrences.

writhing (in childbirth); by implication, terror

King James renderings: (great, much) pain.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chalchalah-h2479

## Occurrences

- [Isaiah 21:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/3) — 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 he…
- [Ezekiel 30:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/4) — And 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…
- [Ezekiel 30:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/9) — In 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 t…
- [Nahum 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/10) — She 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 the…