Strong's #2442: chakah (pronounced khaw-kaw')

a primitive root (apparently akin to 2707 through the idea of piercing); properly, to adhere to; hence, to await:--long, tarry, wait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châkâh

1) to wait, wait for, await

1a) (Qal) to wait for

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to wait, tarry

1b2) to wait (in ambush)

1b3) to wait for, long for

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [apparently akin to H2707 through the idea of piercing]

Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

 

2 Kings 7:9: "of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief"
2 Kings 9:3: "the door, and flee, and tarry not."
Job 3:21: " Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;"
Job 32:4: "Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder"
Psalms 33:20: "Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield."
Psalms 106:13: "They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:"
Isaiah 8:17: " And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look"
Isaiah 30:18: "And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for"
Isaiah 30:18: "of judgment: blessed are all they that wait"
Isaiah 64:4: "seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth"
Daniel 12:12: "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty"
Hosea 6:9: "And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent:"
Habakkuk 2:3: "lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not"
Zephaniah 3:8: "Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for"