Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
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Waited
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1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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קָוָה
qâvâh · kaw-vaw'
7 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect
Strong's KJV usage: gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 6:19Strong's last: Isaiah 33:2
Open full H6960 profile →יָחַל
yâchal · yaw-chal'
6 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained, stay, tarry, trust, wait.
Strong's first: Job 29:21Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:5
Open full H3176 profile →עָמַד
ʻâmad · aw-mad'
5 times translated as this KJV form520 total Strong's occurrences
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Strong's KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Kings 20:38Strong's last: Nehemiah 12:44
Open full H5975 profile →ἐκδέχομαι
ekdéchomai · ek-dekh'-om-ahee
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await
Strong's KJV usage: :--expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 17:16Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:20
Open full G1551 profile →חָכָה
châkâh · khaw-kaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to adhere to; hence, to await
Strong's KJV usage: long, tarry, wait.
Strong's first: Job 32:4Strong's last: Psalms 106:13
Open full H2442 profile →προσδέχομαι
prosdéchomai · pros-dekh'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
to admit (to intercourse, hospitality, credence, or (figuratively) endurance); by implication, to await (with confidence or patience)
Strong's KJV usage: :--accept, allow, look (wait) for, take.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 23:51Strong's last: Luke 23:51
Open full G4327 profile →προσδοκάω
prosdokáō · pros-dok-ah'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
to anticipate (in thought, hope or fear); by implication, to await
Strong's KJV usage: :--(be in) expect(-ation), look (for), when looked, tarry, wait for.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 1:21Strong's last: Luke 1:21
Open full G4328 profile →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: Acts 10:7Strong's last: Acts 10:7
Open full G4342 profile →צָפָה
tsâphâh · tsaw-faw'
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await
Strong's KJV usage: behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 15:22Strong's last: Job 15:22
Open full H6822 profile →שָׁמַר
shâmar · shaw-mar'
1 times translated as this KJV form467 total Strong's occurrences
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: Zechariah 11:11Strong's last: Zechariah 11:11
Open full H8104 profile →שָׁרַת
shârath · shaw-rath'
1 times translated as this KJV form97 total Strong's occurrences
to attend as a menial or worshipper; figuratively, to contribute to
Strong's KJV usage: minister (unto), (do) serve(-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 17:19Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 17:19
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H5975
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
H8334
These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.
no direct Strong's tag
And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
English meaning and historical usage.
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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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