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Expectation

מַבָּטStrong’s H4007

mabbat (mab-bat)

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Mabbat is the Hebrew word usually translated “hope their”, “hope our” and “object of confidence its”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her expectation shall be ashamed; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.”
Zechariah 9:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Expectation, object of hope or confidence
How it's translated
  • hope their 1
  • hope our 1
  • object of confidence its 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 2
  • Zechariah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַבָּט mabbat · expectation

expectation, object of hope or confidence

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “expectation” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

EXPECTA'TION, noun

[Latin expectatio.]

The act of expecting or looking forward to a future event with at least some reason to believe the event will happen. expectation differs from hope. Hope originates in desire, and may exist with little or no ground of belief that the desired event will arrive. expectation is founded on some reasons which render the event probably. Hope is directed to some good; expectation is directed to good or evil.

  1. The state of expecting, either with hope or fear.
  2. Prospect of good to come.“My soul, wait thou only on God, for my expectation is from him.” Psalms 62:5
  3. The object of expectation; the expected Messiah.
  4. A state or qualities in a person which excite expectations in others of some future excellence; as a youth of expectation
All definitions
  1. In chances, expectation is applied to contingent events, and is reducible to computation.

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.