'Pains' in the Bible

Eli's daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and ready to give birth. When she heard the report about the capture of the Ark of God and that her father-in-law and husband were dead, she crouched down and gave birth, because her labor pains suddenly began.

Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

"Before she goes into labor she gives birth; before her pains come upon her she has delivered a son.

You who live in Lebanon, who build your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, pain like that of a woman giving birth.