To await
קָוָהStrong’s H6960qavah (qa-vah)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wait”, “we have waited” and “waited for”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”
Meaning
- To wait, look for, hope, expect(Qal) waiting (participle) · (Piel)
- To collect, bind together(Niphal) to be collected
How it's translated
- wait 3
- we have waited 3
- i waited for 2
- wait for you 2
- and wait 2
- and wait for 2
- it waits 2
- and he waited 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 14
- Isaiah 14
- Job 5
- Jeremiah 5
- Genesis 2
- Lamentations 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 49:18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
- Job 3:9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 6:19The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Job 7:2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
- Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Hebrew dictionary
קָוָה qavah · to await
1) to wait, look for, hope, expect 1a) (Qal) waiting (participle) 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to wait or look eagerly for 1b2) to lie in wait for 1b3) to wait for, linger for
קָוָה qavah · to collect
1) to collect, bind together 1a) (Niphal) to be collected
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “await” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AWA'IT, verb transitive
[a and wait. See Wait.]
- To wait for; to look for, or expect.
- To be in store for; to attend; to be ready for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
All definitions and other forms of “await”
AWA'IT, noun
Ambush; in a state of waiting for.
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.