Strong's #1551: ekdechomai (pronounced ek-dekh'-om-ahee)

from 1537 and 1209; to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await:--expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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ekdechomai

1) to receive, accept

2) to look for, expect, wait for, await

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G1537 and G1209

Citing in TDNT: 2:56, 146

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

John 5:3: "of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water."
Acts 17:16: "Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit"
1 Corinthians 11:33: "brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another."
1 Corinthians 16:11: "he may come unto me: for I look for him with the"
Hebrews 10:13: "From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool."
Hebrews 11:10: "For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and"
James 5:7: "Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the"
1 Peter 3:20: "the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark"