G1551 — ekdechomai
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
ekdechomai — pronounced ek-dekh'-om-ahee
from 1537 and 1209; to accept from some source, i.e. (by implication) to await:--expect, look (tarry) for, wait (for). see GREEK for 1537 see GREEK for 1209
8 occurrences in the KJV.
John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
1 Corinthians 11:33
Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
1 Corinthians 16:11
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.
Hebrews 10:13
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
James 5:7
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.
1 Peter 3:20
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.