Ekdéchomai — G1551

Definition

verb

to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await

1. to receive, accept
2. to look for, expect, wait for, await

Usually translated as

look, expect, for, wait

Origin

from G1537 and G1209

• ek (G1537)
• déchomai (G1209)

Occurrences

Ekdéchomai occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: John (1), Acts (1), 1 Corinthians (2), Hebrews (2), James (1), 1 Peter (1)

• John 5:3 — In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for (ἐκδεχομένων) the moving of the water.
• Acts 17:16 — Now while Paul waited for (ἐκδεχομένου) them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
• 1 Corinthians 11:33 — Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry (ἐκδέχεσθε) one for another.
• 1 Corinthians 16:11 — Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for (ἐκδέχομαι) him with the brethren.
• Hebrews 10:13 — From henceforth expecting (ἐκδεχόμενος) till his enemies be made his footstool.
• Hebrews 11:10 — For he looked for (ἐξεδέχετο) a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
• James 5:7 — Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for (ἐκδέχεται) the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• 1 Peter 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited (ἐξεδέχετο) in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.