Lexical Summary apekdechomai: to await eagerly Original Word: ἀπεκδέχομαιTransliteration: apekdechomai Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ek-dekh'-om-ahee) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to await eagerly Meaning: to await eagerly Strong's Concordance to await eagerlyFrom apo and ekdechomai; to expect fully -- look (wait) foreign see GREEK apo see GREEK ekdechomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 553: ἀπεκδέχομαιἀπεκδέχομαι; (imperfect ἀπεξεδεχομην); assiduously and patiently to wait for (cf. English wait it out): absolutely, 1 Peter 3:20 (Rec. ἐκδέχομαι); τί, Romans 8:19, 23, 25; 1 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 5:5 (on this passage cf. ἐλπίς; at the end); with the accusative of a person, Christ in his return from heaven: Philippians 3:20; Hebrews 9:28. Cf. C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opuscc., p. 155f; Winers De verb. comp. etc. Part iv., p. 14; (Ellicott on Galatians, the passage cited). (Scarcely found out of the N. T.; Heliodorus Aeth. 2, 35; 7, 23.) |
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