ὠδίνων. [2 times](noun pl fem gen) "Sorrows" is ôdin, which means specifically the "pain or throes of childbirth," "children," in singular, "that which is born amid throes,"" "child," It is a metaphor for "anguish" but with the specific sense of suffering that bears fruit, "fruit of" the mind's "travail." This is very different from the sorrow we feel at death, which is what the term "sorrows" in the context of war and natural disaster seems to indicate.