To wait
חָכָהStrong’s H2442chakhah (cha-khah)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chakhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wait”, “we will delay” and “must delay”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
Meaning
- To wait, wait for, await(Qal) to wait for · (Piel)
How it's translated
- wait 3
- and we will delay 1
- you must delay 1
- those long 1
- he had waited 1
- it waits 1
- they waited 1
- and i will wait 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Daniel 1
- Hosea 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 7:9Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
- 2 Kings 9:3Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
- Job 3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
- Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- Psalms 33:20Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
- Psalms 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
Hebrew dictionary
חָכָה chakhah · to wait
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wait” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAIT, verb intransitive
[The sense is to stop, or to continue.]
- To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary, till the arrival of some person or event.
- To stay proceedings, or suspend any business, in expectation of some person, event, or the arrival of some hour.
- To rest in expectation and patience.“All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come” Job 14:14
- To stay; not to depart.
All definitions and other forms of “wait”
- To stay; to continue by reason of hindrance.
- To lie in ambush, as an enemy.
- To attend; to go to see; to visit on business or for ceremony.
- To pay servile or submissive attendance.
- To follow, as a consequence; as the ruin that waits on such a supine temper. [Instead of this, we use await.]
- To look watchfully.
- To attend to; to perform.“Aaron and his sons shall wait on their priests office., 8” Numbers 3:10
- To be ready to serve; to obey. Psalms 25:3Proverbs 20:22
WAIT, verb transitive
- To stay for; to rest or remain stationary in expectation of the arrival of.
- To attend; to accompany with submission or respect.
- To attend as a consequence of something.
WAIT, noun
Ambush. As a noun, this word is used only in certain phrases. To lie in wait is to lie in ambush; to be secreted in order to fall by surprise on an enemy; hence figuratively, to lay snares, or to make insidious attempts, or to watch for the purpose of ensnaring.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.