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1.
(
, 3449), “labor, involving painful effort,” is rendered “travail” in
2 Cor. 11:27,
RV
(
KJV
, “painfulness”); in 1 Thess. 2:9 and 2 Thess. 3:8 it stresses the toil
involved in the work.¶
2.
(
8 &
, 5604), a birth pang, “travail pain,” is used illustratively in 1 Thess. 5:3
of the calamities which are to come upon men at the beginning of the Day of the Lord;
the figure used suggests the inevitableness of the catastrophe. See
PAIN
, No. 2,
SORROW
.
B. Verbs.
1.
(
8 &
, 5605), akin to A, No. 2, is used negatively in Gal. 4:27, “(thou) that
travailest (not),” quoted from Isa. 54:1; the apostle applies the circumstances of Sarah
and Hagar (which doubtless Isaiah was recalling) to show that, whereas the promise by
grace had temporarily been replaced by the works of the Law (see Gal. 3:17), this was
now reversed, and, in the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham, the number of those
saved by the gospel would far exceed those who owned allegiance to the Law. Isa. 54 has
primary reference to the future prosperity of Israel restored to God’s favor, but frequently
the principles underlying events recorded in the OT extend beyond their immediate
application.
In 4:19 the apostle uses it metaphorically of a second travailing on his part regarding
the churches of Galatia; his first was for their deliverance from idolatry (v. 8), now it was
for their deliverance from bondage to Judaism. There is no suggestion here of a second
regeneration necessitated by defection. There is a hint of reproach, as if he was enquiring
whether they had ever heard of a mother experiencing second birth pangs for her
children.
In Rev. 12:2 the woman is figurative of Israel; the circumstances of her birth pangs
are mentioned in Isa. 66:7 (see also Micah 5:2, 3). Historically the natural order is
reversed. The Manchild, Christ, was brought forth at His first advent; the travail is
destined to take place in “the time of Jacob’s trouble,” the “great tribulation,” Matt.
24:21; Rev. 7:14. The object in 12:2 in referring to the birth of Christ is to connect Him
with His earthly people Israel in their future time of trouble, from which the godly
remnant, the nucleus of the restored nation, is to be delivered (Jer. 30:7).¶
2.
$
(
&
, 4944), “to be in travail together,” is used metaphorically in
Rom. 8:22, of the whole creation.¶
3.
(
&
, 5088), “to beget,” is rendered “travail” in John 16:21.
For
TRAVEL
(companions in),
Acts 19:29
, and (TRAVEL WITH),
2 Cor.
8:19
, see
COMPANION
, No. 1.
TRAVEL
(
!$
, 1330), “to go or pass through,” is translated “travelled” in
Acts 11:19. See
COME
, No. 5.
Note:
For
, rendered “travelling” in Matt. 25:14,
KJV
, see
GO
, No. 27.
TREAD, TRODE, TRODDEN
1.
(
!
, 3961) is used (a) intransitively and figuratively, of “treading” upon
serpents, Luke 10:19; (b) transitively, of “treading” on, down or under, of the desecration
of Jerusalem by its foes, Luke 21:24; Rev. 11:2; of the avenging, by the Lord in Person