Prosdokia means “expectation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H4329 — meycak (“covert”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G4329 προσδοκία (prosdokia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. prosdokia (pros-dok-ee'-ah) n. 1. apprehension (of evil) 2. (by implication) infliction anticipated It has 10 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include looking and expectation. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
prosdokia (pros-dok-ee'-ah) n. 1. apprehension (of evil) 2. (by implication) infliction anticipated [from G4328] KJV: expectation, looking after Root(s): G4328
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G4329. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
expectation
Usage: προσδοκία, -ας, ἡ (ιροσδοκάω), [in LXX: Gen.49:10 (יִקָּהָה), Psa.119:116 (שֵׂבֶר) Wis.17:13, Sir.40:2, al. ;] expectation: with genitive obj., Luk.21:26; with genitive subjc., Act.12:11.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render prosdokia, 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 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. 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 G4329 (προσδοκία) appears 8 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.
2 indexed usages in New Testament.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
A ruler shall not fail from Judah, Nor a prince from his loins, Until there come the things stored up for him; And he is the expectation of nations.
Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; And make me not ashamed of my expectation.
But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest, being in such an agony.
For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G4329.
A ruler shall not fail from Judah, Nor a prince from his loins, Until there come the things stored up for him; And he is the expectation of nations.
Uphold me according to thy word, and quicken me; And make me not ashamed of my expectation.
But I have raised this expectation, yet thou hast not remembered me, saith the Lord: behold, have not I made the bearing and barren woman? saith thy God.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Then it would have pitied a man to see the falling down of the multitude of all sorts, and the fear of the high priest, being in such an agony.
For this cause the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city: it swarms with factions; and is continually on the point of being plundered.
thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans: they kissed each other: those nearest of kin to each other hung about one another’s necks: fathers about their sons, mothers their daughters: other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk.
For fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succors which reason offereth.
Their imagination of things to come, and the day of death, Trouble their thoughts, and cause fear of heart;
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G4329, grouped by book.
Prosdokia (Strong's G4329) is a Greek word most simply glossed "expectation". prosdokia (pros-dok-ee'-ah) n. 1. apprehension (of evil) 2. (by implication) infliction anticipated
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G4329 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G4329 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 looking and expectation. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G4329, with linked reader references where each row is available.