Ekdechomai means “expect” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1551 — galil (“Galilee”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1551 ἐκδέχομαι (ekdechomai) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ekdechomai (ek-dekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept from some source 2. (by implication) to await It has 22 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include waited, waiting, tarry, look, and expecting. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
ekdechomai (ek-dekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept from some source 2. (by implication) to await [from G1537 and G1209] KJV: expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for) Root(s): G1537, G1209
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1551. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to wait for
Usage: ἐκ-δέχομαι [in LXX for עֶרֶב, קָבַץ, etc. ;] __1. to take or receive from (Hom., Hdt., a1.). __2. (Rare in cl.), to expect, await: with accusative of thing(s), Jhn.5:3, Heb.11:10, Jas.5:7; with accusative of person(s), Act.17:16, 1Co.11:33 16:11; before ἕως, Heb.10:13 (Cremer, 687).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ekdechomai, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1551 (ἐκδέχομαι) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
8 indexed usages in New Testament.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And I engage for him; at my hand do thou require him; if I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty toward thee forever.
For thy servant has received the boy in charge from his father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty toward my father forever.
Receive thy servant for good: Let not the proud accuse me falsely.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,
The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
Give ear, my son, receive my advice, And refuse not my counsel,
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1551.
And I engage for him; at my hand do thou require him; if I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty toward thee forever.
For thy servant has received the boy in charge from his father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, and place him before thee, I shall be guilty toward my father forever.
Receive thy servant for good: Let not the proud accuse me falsely.
See how the just man has perished, and no one lays it to heart: and righteous men are taken away, and no one considers: for the righteous has been removed out of the way of injustice.
for they sowed blighted seed, and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.
Therefore, behold, they go forth from the trouble of Egypt, and Memphis shall receive them, and Machmas shall bury them: as for their silver, destruction shall inherit it; thorns shall be in their tents.
Jacob shall be completely gathered with all his people: I will surely receive the remnant of Israel; I will cause them to return together, as sheep in trouble, as a flock in the midst of their fold: they shall rush forth from among men through the breach made before them:
Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive them.
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer; and constantly inclining to evil,
The sun’s rays were not yet shed abroad, and the king was waiting for his friends, when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying, That his desires could now be realized.
Give ear, my son, receive my advice, And refuse not my counsel,
If thou love to hear, thou shalt receive understanding: And if thou bow thine ear, thou shalt be wise.
He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, And that diligently seek after his judgments.
He will not despise the supplication of the fatherless; Nor the widow, when she poureth out her complaint.
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Ekdechomai (Strong's G1551) is a Greek word most simply glossed "expect". ekdechomai (ek-dekh'-om-ai) v. 1. to accept from some source 2. (by implication) to await
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's G1551 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1551 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as waited, waiting, tarry, look, expecting, and looked. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1551, with linked reader references where each row is available.