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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Wait

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

106exact KJV occurrences 90Old Testament 16New Testament 28books containing the word 27mapped Strong's IDs 96occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 21:13

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

1 Thessalonians 1:10

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where wait appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Exodus 11 verses Numbers 44 verses Deuteronomy 11 verses Joshua 22 verses Judges 1514 verses 1 Samuel 44 verses 2 Kings 11 verses 1 Chronicles 11 verses 2 Chronicles 22 verses Ezra 11 verses Job 44 verses Psalms 2421 verses Proverbs 77 verses Isaiah 98 verses Jeremiah 33 verses Lamentations 44 verses Hosea 33 verses Micah 22 verses Habakkuk 11 verses Zephaniah 11 verses Mark 11 verses Luke 22 verses Acts 77 verses Romans 22 verses 1 Corinthians 11 verses Galatians 11 verses Ephesians 11 verses 1 Thessalonians 11 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG1917
ἐπιβουλή

epiboulḗ · ep-ee-boo-lay'

3 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences

a plan against someone, i.e. a plot

Strong's KJV usage: :--laying (lying) in wait.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 20:3Strong's last: Acts 23:30

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HebrewH8104
שָׁמַר

shâmar · shaw-mar'

3 times translated as this KJV form467 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.

Strong's KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 5:11Strong's last: Psalms 71:10

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GreekG1748
ἐνεδρεύω

enedreúō · en-ed-ryoo'-o

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

to lurk, i.e. (figuratively) plot assassination

Strong's KJV usage: :--lay wait for.

Strong's first: Luke 11:54Strong's last: Acts 23:21

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GreekG1747
ἐνέδρα

enédra · en-ed'-rah

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

an ambuscade, i.e. (figuratively) murderous purpose

Strong's KJV usage: :--lay wait.

Strong's first: Acts 25:3Strong's last: Acts 25:3

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GreekG1749
ἔνεδρον

énedron · en'-ed-ron

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

an ambush, i.e. (figuratively) murderous design

Strong's KJV usage: :--lying in wait.

Strong's first: Acts 23:16Strong's last: Acts 23:16

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GreekG3180
μεθοδεία

methodeía · meth-od-i'-ah

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

travelling over, i.e. travesty (trickery)

Strong's KJV usage: :--wile, lie in wait.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Ephesians 4:14Strong's last: Ephesians 4:14

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GreekG4037
περιμένω

periménō · per-ee-men'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

to stay around, i.e. await

Strong's KJV usage: :--wait for.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 1:4Strong's last: Acts 1:4

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GreekG4342
προσκαρτερέω

proskarteréō · pros-kar-ter-eh'-o

1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences

to be earnest towards, i.e. (to a thing) to persevere, be constantly diligent, or (in a place) to attend assiduously all the exercises, or (to a person) to adhere closely to (as a servitor)

Strong's KJV usage: :--attend (give self) continually (upon), continue (in, instant in, with), wait on (continually).

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 3:9Strong's last: Mark 3:9

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HebrewH695
אֶרֶב

ʼereb · eh'-reb

1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

ambuscade

Strong's KJV usage: den, lie in wait.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Job 38:40Strong's last: Job 38:40

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HebrewH3027
יָד

yâd · yawd

1 times translated as this KJV form1,573 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]

Strong's KJV usage: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 23:28Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 23:28

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HebrewH7378
רִיב

rîyb · reeb

1 times translated as this KJV form66 total Strong's occurrences

v

properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend

Strong's KJV usage: adversary, chide, complain, contend, debate, × ever, × lay wait, plead, rebuke, strive, × thoroughly.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: 1 Samuel 15:5Strong's last: 1 Samuel 15:5

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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15 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

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Judges 9:25
H693

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

Judges 9:32
H693

Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Judges 9:34
H693

And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

Judges 9:35
H3993

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

Judges 9:43
H693

And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people were come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.

Judges 16:2
H693

And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

Judges 16:9
H693

Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

Judges 16:12
H693

Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

Judges 20:33
H693

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

Judges 20:36
H693

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

Judges 20:37
H693

And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

Judges 20:37
H693

And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

Judges 20:38
H693

Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

Judges 21:20
H693

Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

wait

WAIT, verb intransitive [The sense is to stop, or to continue.]

1. To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary, till the arrival of some person or event. Thus we say, I went to the place of meeting, and there waited an hour for the moderator or chairman. I will go to the hotel, and there wait till you come. We will wait for the mail.

2. To stay proceedings, or suspend any business, in expectation of some person, event, or the arrival of some hour. The court was obliged to wait for a witness.

3. To rest in expectation and patience.

All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come. Job 14:14.

4. To stay; not to depart.

Haste, my dear father, tis no time to wait

5. To stay; to continue by reason of hindrance.

6. To lie in ambush, as an enemy.

Such ambush waited to intercept thy way.

To wait on or upon, to attend, as a servant; to perform menial services for; as, to wait on a gentleman; to wait on the table.

To wait on,

1. To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony. Tell the gentleman I will wait on him at ten oclock.

2. To pay servile or submissive attendance.

3. To follow, as a consequence; as the ruin that waits on such a supine temper. [Instead of this, we use await.]

4. To look watchfully.

It is a point of cunning to wait on him with whom you speak, with your eye. [Unusual.]

5. To attend to; to perform.

Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priests office. Numbers 3:10, 8. Romans 12:7.

6. To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalms 25:3. Proverbs 20:22.

To wait at, to attend in service; to perform service at. 1 Corinthians 9:13.

To wait for, to watch, as an enemy. Job 15:22.

WAIT, verb transitive

1. To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of the arrival of.

Awd with these words, in camps they still abide, and wait with longing eyes their promisd guide. [Elliptical for wait for.]

2. To attend; to accompany with submission or respect.

He chose a thousand horse, the flowr of all his warlike troops, to wait the funeral. [This use is not justifiable, but by poetical license.]

3. To attend as a consequence of something.

Such doom waits luxury--

[Not in use. In this sense we use attend or attend on.]

WAIT, noun Ambush. As a noun, this word is used only in certain phrases. To lie in wait is to lie in ambush; to be secreted in order to fall by surprise on an enemy; hence figuratively, to lay snares, or to make insidious attempts, or to watch for the purpose of ensnaring. Joshua 8:4.

In wait is used in a like sense by Milton.

To lay wait to set an ambush. Jeremiah 9:8.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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