, Lk. 11:12*

, Acts 7:16*

, Mt. 23:4; Lk. 15:5*

, Gal. 4:27; Rev. 12:2; met. to travail with, suffer birth pangs, to make effort to bring to spiritual birth, Gal. 4:19*

, or pains, of a woman in travail, a birth pang, 1 Thess. 5:3; pl. met. birth throes, preliminary troubles to the development of a catastrophe, Mt. 24:8; Mk.

, Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16; Rev. 5:9; 14:3; 15:3*

, Mt. 12:6, 41; ὧδε ἢ ὧδε, here or there, Mt. 24:23; τὰ ὧδε, the state of things here, Col. 4:9; met. herein, in this thing, Rev.

, Mt. 15:28; Mk. 9:19; Acts 1:1; Rom. 2:1, 3; 11:33

, the last letter of the Greek alphabet, hence, met. τὸ Ω, the last, Rev. 1:8; 21:6; 22:13*