Strong's #6960: qavah (pronounced kaw-vaw')

a primitive root; to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect:--gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qâvâh

1) to wait, look for, hope, expect

1a) (Qal) waiting (participle)

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to wait or look eagerly for

1b2) to lie in wait for

1b3) to wait for, linger for

2) to collect, bind together

2a) (Niphal) to be collected

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1994, 1995

Usage:

This word is used 49 times:

 

Genesis 1:9: "Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,"
Genesis 49:18: " I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD."
Job 3:9: "Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see"
Job 6:19: "looked, the companies of Sheba waited for"
Job 7:2: "earnestly desireth the shadow, and as a hireling looketh for the reward of his work:"
Job 17:13: "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness."
Job 30:26: "When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came"
Psalms 25:3: "Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause."
Psalms 25:5: "thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day."
Psalms 25:21: "and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on"
Psalms 27:14: " Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on"
Psalms 27:14: "be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."
Psalms 37:9: "For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth."
Psalms 37:34: " Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land:"
Psalms 39:7: "And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope"
Psalms 40:1: "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto"
Psalms 40:1: "A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard"
Psalms 52:9: "thee forever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before"
Psalms 56:6: "mark my steps, when they wait for my soul."
Psalms 69:6: "Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek"
Psalms 69:20: "hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found"
Psalms 119:95: "The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies."
Psalms 130:5: " I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope."
Psalms 130:5: "I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope."
Proverbs 20:22: "not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save"
Isaiah 5:2: "of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes."
Isaiah 5:4: "that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?"
Isaiah 5:7: "of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness,"
Isaiah 8:17: "his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look"
Isaiah 25:9: "Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited"
Isaiah 25:9: "for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
Isaiah 26:8: "in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance"
Isaiah 33:2: "O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also"
Isaiah 40:31: " But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,"
Isaiah 49:23: "for they shall not be ashamed that wait"
Isaiah 51:5: "shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust."
Isaiah 59:9: "is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold"
Isaiah 59:11: "like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation,"
Isaiah 60:9: "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons"
Isaiah 64:3: "When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence."
Jeremiah 3:17: "of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem:"
Jeremiah 8:15: " We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!"
Jeremiah 13:16: "upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make"
Jeremiah 14:19: "why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good;"
Jeremiah 14:22: "he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made"
Lamentations 2:16: "certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen"
Lamentations 3:25: "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh"
Hosea 12:6: "keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually."
Micah 5:7: "as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor"