Heaviness, so Wyc. and Tynd., in the earlier sense of sorrow. So Chaucer:
“Who feeleth double sorrow and heaviness
But Palamon?”
“Knight's Tale,” 1456
Shakespeare:
“I am here, brother, full of heaviness.”
2 “Henry IV.,” iv., 5, 8
Rev., sorrow. Ὁδύνη is better rendered pain. Some derive it from the root ed eat, as indicating, consuming pain. Compare Horace, curae edares devouring cares. Only here and 1Ti 6:10.