Genesis 35:16
And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Travailed
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
Isaiah 66:8
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Read in context →Genesis
2 occurrences in 2 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where travailed appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
יָלַד
yâlad · yaw-lad'
3 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Strong's KJV usage: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 35:16Strong's last: 1 Samuel 4:19
Open full H3205 profile →חוּל
chûwl · khool
2 times translated as this KJV form61 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's KJV usage: 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.
Strong's first: Isaiah 66:7Strong's last: Isaiah 66:8
Open full H2342 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
5 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
H3205
And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
H3205
And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.
H3205
And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
H2342
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
H2342
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
travail
TRAV'AIL, verb intransitive [Latin trans, over, beyond, and mael, work; Eng. moil.]
1. To labor with pain; to toil.
2. To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor. Genesis 35:16.
TRAV'AIL, verb transitive To harass; to tire; as troubles sufficient to travail the realm. [Not in use.]
TRAV'AIL, noun Labor with pain; severe toil.
As every thing of price, so doth this require travail
1. Labor in childbirth; as a severe travail; an easy travail
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.