Lexical Summary prosdokia: expectation Original Word: προσδοκίαTransliteration: prosdokia Phonetic Spelling: (pros-dok-ee'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: expectation Meaning: expectation Strong's Concordance expectation, looking after. From prosdokao; apprehension (of evil); by implication, infliction anticipated -- expectation, looking after. see GREEK prosdokao Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4329: προσδοκίαπροσδοκία, προσδοκίας, ἡ (προσδοκάω), from Thucydides and Xenophon down, expectation (whether of good or of evil): joined to φόβος (Plutarch, Ant. 75: Demetr. 15) with a genitive of the object added (Winer's Grammar, § 50, 7 b.), Luke 21:26; τοῦ λαοῦ (genitive of subject), the expectation of the people respecting Peter's execution, Acts 12:11. |
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