ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΕΝΟΣ, ἐκδεχομενος
EKDECHOMENOS, ekdechomenos
Sounds Like: ek-DEH-kho-meh-nos
Translations: waiting for, expecting, looking for, awaiting
From the root: ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΑΙ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is a present participle of the verb 'ekdechomai', meaning 'to wait for', 'to expect', or 'to look for'. It is a compound word formed from 'ek' (out of, from) and 'dechomai' (to receive, to accept). It describes someone who is in the act of waiting or expecting something or someone.
Inflection: Present, Middle/Passive, Nominative, Masculine, Singular
Strong’s number: G1551 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:205
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 10:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΑΙ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΚΔΕΞΑΜΕΝΗ — receiving, awaiting, expecting, having received, when she had received
- ἘΚΔΕΞΟΜΑΙ — wait for, expect, look for, await
- ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΑΙ — expect, wait for, look for, await
- ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΕΘΑ — we await, we expect, we look for, we wait for
- ἘΚΔΕΧΟΜΕΝΩΝ — (of) waiting for, (of) expecting, (of) looking for, (of) awaiting
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