Strong's #7663: sabar (pronounced saw-bar')

erroneously shabar (Nehemiah 2:13, 15) {shaw-bar'}; a primitive root; to scrutinize; by implication (of watching) to expect (with hope and patience):--hope, tarry, view, wait.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׂ

śâbar / shâbar

1) to inspect, examine, wait, hope, wait upon

1a) (Qal) examined (participle)

1b) (Piel)

1b1) to wait (for), wait upon

1b2) to hope (for)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Ruth 1:13: " Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having"
Nehemiah 2:13: "well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem,"
Nehemiah 2:15: "Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Esther 9:1: "to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it"
Psalms 104:27: " These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season."
Psalms 119:166: "LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments."
Psalms 145:15: "The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat"
Isaiah 38:18: "thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth."