ἐκδέχομαι

In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. wholly: or, full of idols

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be: or, Be long patient, or, Suffer with long patience

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.