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ἐκδέχομαι G1551

ekdéchomai · ek-dekh'-om-ahee · Verb

from ἐκ and δέχομαι; to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await:--expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for).

8 Occurrences in the King James Bible

John 5:3In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Acts 17:16Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

1 Corinthians 11:33Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

1 Corinthians 16:11Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

Hebrews 10:13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Hebrews 11:10For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

1 Peter 3:20Which 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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