Lexicon ekdechomai: to take or receive, by impl. to await, expect Original Word: ἐκδέχομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekdechomai Phonetic Spelling: (ek-dekh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I wait for, expect Definition: I wait for, expect. HELPS word-Studies 1551 ekdéxomai (from 1537 /ek, "out from and to" and 1209/dexomai, "welcome") – properly, welcome from the heart, looking to the end-result of the waiting (literally, its "out-come," outcome). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and dechomaiDefinitionto take or receive, by impl. to await, expect NASB Translationexpect (1), looking (1), wait (1), waiting (3), waits (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1551: ἐκδέχομαιἐκδέχομαι; imperfect ἐξεδεχομην; ( ἐκ from some person or quarter); 1. to receive, accept ((Homer), Aeschylus, Herodotus, and following). 2. to look for, expect, wait for, await: τί, John 5:3 R L; Hebrews 11:10; James 5:7; τινα, Acts 17:16; 1 Corinthians 16:11; ἀλλήλους ἐκδέχεσθε wait for one another, namely, until each shall have received his food, 1 Corinthians 11:33, cf. 1 Corinthians 11:21; followed by ἕως etc. Hebrews 10:13; (absolutely, 1 Peter 3:20 Rec., but see Tdf.s note at the passage). Rarely with this meaning in secular authors, as Sophocles Phil. 123; Apollod. 1, 9, 27 § 3; ἕως ἄν γένηται τί, Dionysius Halicarnassus 6, 67. (Compare: ἀπεκδέχομαι. Cf. δέχομαι, at the end.)
Strong's expect, look for, wait for. From ek and dechomai; to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await -- expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for). see GREEK ek see GREEK dechomai |
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