Lexicon apokaradokia: strained expectancy Original Word: ἀποκαραδοκία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apokaradokia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok-ar-ad-ok-ee'-ah) Short Definition: eager expectation Definition: eager expectation. HELPS word-Studies 603 apokaradokía ("from 575 /apó, "away from"; kara, "the head"; and 1380 /dokéō, "thinking") – properly, thinking forward (literally with head out-stretched), referring to eager, intense expectation. 603 /apokaradokía ("attentive expectation") is used twice (Ro 8:19; Phil 1:20). Ro 8:19 applies this term directly to each believer receiving a unique, glorified body at Christ's return (see also 1 Cor 15:35-54; 2 Cor 5:1-10; Phil 3:11-21). This intense expectation fosters earnest longing to see Jesus – portrayed as an Olympic runner straining forward to the end-goal with "head outstretched" (Ro 8:19)! This automatically also means turning away from what is lesser, to lay hold of the greater. [The prefix, "575 /apó ('from'), implies abstraction, the attention turned from other objects" (WS, 709), suggesting "abstraction and absorption" (Lightfoot). "This abstraction – from anything else that might engage the attention – is also absorpted in the expected object "till the fulfillment is realized" (H. Alford).] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom a comp. of apo, kara (the head) and dokeóDefinitionstrained expectancy NASB Translationanxious longing (1), earnest expectation (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 603: ἀποκαραδοκίαἀποκαραδοκία, ἀποκαραδοκιας, ἡ (from ἀποκαραδόκειν, and this from ἀπό, κάρα, the head, and δοκεῖν in the Ionic dialect, to watch; hence, καραδόκειν ( Herodotus 7. 163, 168; Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 6; Euripides, others) to watch with head erect or outstretched, to direct attention to anything, to wait for in suspense; ἀποκαραδόκειν ( Polybius 16, 2, 8; 18, 31, 4; 22, 19, 3; ( Plutarch, parall., p. 310, 43, vol. vii., p. 235, Reiske edition); Josephus, b. j. 3, 7, 26, and in Psalm 36:7 () Aq. for הִתהולֵל), anxiously (?) to look forth from one's post. But the prefix ἀπό refers also to time (like the German ab inabwarten (cf. English wait it out)), so that it signifies constancy in expecting; hence, the noun, found in Paul alone and but twice, denotes), anxious (?) and persistent expectation: Romans 8:19; Philippians 1:20. This word is very fully discussed by C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opuscc., p. 150ff; (cf. Ellicott and Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited).
Strong's earnest expectation. From a comparative of apo and a compound of kara (the head) and dokeo (in the sense of watching); intense anticipation -- earnest expectation. see GREEK apo see GREEK dokeo |
