Strong's #4328: prosdokao (pronounced pros-dok-ah'-o)

from 4314 and dokeuo (to watch); to anticipate (in thought, hope or fear); by implication, to await:--(be in) expect(-ation), look (for), when looked, tarry, wait for.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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prosdokaō

1) to expect (whether in thought, in hope, or in fear)

2) to look for, wait for

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G4314 and dokeuo (to watch)

Citing in TDNT: 6:725, 943

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Matthew 11:3: "thou he that should come, or do we look for another?"
Matthew 24:50: "in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour"
Luke 1:21: "And the people waited for Zacharias, and marveled"
Luke 3:15: "And as the people were in expectation, and all men mused in"
Luke 7:19: "thou he that should come or look we for another?"
Luke 7:20: "thou he that should come or look we for another?"
Luke 8:40: "for they were all waiting for him."
Luke 12:46: "in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour"
Acts 3:5: "he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them."
Acts 10:24: "Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together"
Acts 27:33: "saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken"
Acts 28:6: "Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down"
Acts 28:6: "suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw"
2 Peter 3:12: " Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,"
2 Peter 3:13: "we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new"
2 Peter 3:14: "Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in"