Word 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 eagerly
From 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.)