STRONGS NUMBER G553


Word Summary
apekdechomai: to await eagerly
Original Word: ἀπεκδέχομαι
Transliteration: 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: ἀπεκδέχομαι

ἀπεκδέχομαι; (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.)