yachal (to wait) · Rightly

Meaning

To wait, hope, expect(Niphal) to wait · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to wait, tarry, wait for, hope for

How it's translated

i will wait 7
i hope 5
wait 3
and he waited 2
and they waited 2
hope 2
may you wait 1
will i wait 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 19
Job 8
1 Samuel 2
Isaiah 2
Lamentations 2
Ezekiel 2

11 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

1 Samuel 10:8And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
1 Samuel 13:8And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
2 Samuel 18:14Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
2 Kings 6:33And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 13:15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

All 41 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 8:12
1 Samuel 2: 10:8 13:8
2 Samuel 1: 18:14
2 Kings 1: 6:33
Job 8: 6:11 13:15 14:14 29:21 29:23 30:26 32:11 32:16
Psalms 19: 31:24 33:18 33:22 38:15 42:5 42:11 43:5 69:3 71:14 119:43 119:49 119:74 119:81 119:114 119:147 130:5 130:7 131:3 147:11
Isaiah 2: 42:4 51:5
Jeremiah 1: 4:19
Lamentations 2: 3:21 3:24
Ezekiel 2: 13:6 19:5
Micah 2: 5:7 7:7

Hebrew dictionary

יָחַל yachal · to wait

: wait[for_time] 1) to wait, hope, expect 1a) (Niphal) to wait 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to wait, await, tarry 1b2) to wait for, hope for 1c) (Hiphil) to wait, tarry, wait for, hope for Also means: ya.chal (יָחַל ": hope" H3176H)

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 25:3 Proverbs 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.