Waiting
יָחִילStrong’s H3175yachil (ya-chil)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yachil is the Hebrew word usually translated “waiting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Waiting, hoping
How it's translated
- and waiting 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Lamentations 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יָחִיל yachil · waiting
waiting, hoping
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “waiting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAITING, participle present
tense Staying in expectation.
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.