חוּל chûwl

Meaning

properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert

In the King James Version: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.

Derivation: or חִיל; a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 8:10 Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
• Deuteronomy 2:25 This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
• Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
• Judges 3:25 So they waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upper room. Then they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor.
• Judges 21:21 and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
• Judges 21:23 The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
• 1 Samuel 31:3 When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
• 2 Samuel 3:29 May it whirl over the head of Joab and over the entire house of his father, and may the house of Joab never be without one having a discharge or skin disease, or one who leans on a staff or falls by the sword or lacks food.”
• 1 Chronicles 10:3 When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.
• 1 Chronicles 16:30 tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
• Esther 4:4 When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
• Job 15:7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
• Job 15:20 A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
• Job 20:21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
• Job 26:5 The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
• Job 35:14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
• Job 39:1 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
• Psalms 10:5 He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
• Psalms 29:8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
• Psalms 29:9 The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. And in His temple all cry, “Glory!”
• Psalms 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
• Psalms 51:5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
• Psalms 55:4 My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
• Psalms 77:16 The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
• Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
• Psalms 96:9 Worship the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth.
• Psalms 97:4 His lightning illuminates the world; the earth sees and trembles.
• Psalms 114:7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
• Proverbs 8:24 When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
• Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
• Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
• Isaiah 13:8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
• Isaiah 23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
• Isaiah 23:5 When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
• Isaiah 26:17 As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
• Isaiah 26:18 We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
• Isaiah 45:10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
• Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
• Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
• Isaiah 66:7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
• Isaiah 66:8 Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.
• Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
• Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
• Jeremiah 23:19 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 30:23 Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 51:29 The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
• Lamentations 4:6 The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
• Ezekiel 30:16 I will set fire to Egypt, Pelusium will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be split open, and Memphis will face daily distress.
• Hosea 11:6 A sword will flash through their cities; it will destroy the bars of their gates and consume them in their own plans.
• Joel 2:6 Nations writhe in horror before them; every face turns pale.
• Micah 1:12 For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
• Micah 4:10 Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!
• Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
• Zechariah 9:5 Ashkelon will see and fear; Gaza will writhe in agony, as will Ekron, for her hope will wither. There will cease to be a king in Gaza, and Ashkelon will be uninhabited.