Strong's Concordance ekdechomai: to take or receive, by impl. to await, expect Original Word: ἐκδέχομαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ekdechomai Phonetic Spelling: (ek-dekh'-om-ahee) Definition: to take or receive, by implication to await, expect Usage: I wait for, expect. HELPS Word-studies 1551 ekdé NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ek and dechomai Definition to take or receive, by impl. to await, expect NASB Translation expect (1), looking (1), wait (1), waiting (3), waits (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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.) 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 Englishman's Concordance John 5:3 V-PP-GMPGRK: χωλῶν ξηρῶν ἐκδεχομένων τὴν τοῦ KJV: withered, waiting for the moving INT: lame paralyzed awaiting the of the Acts 17:16 V-PPM/P-GMS 1 Corinthians 11:33 V-PMM/P-2P 1 Corinthians 16:11 V-PIM/P-1S Hebrews 10:13 V-PPM/P-NMS Hebrews 11:10 V-IIM/P-3S James 5:7 V-PIM/P-3S Strong's Greek 1551 |