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Dictionaries :: Look (For), Looking (After, For)

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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
A-1 Verb Strong's Number: g4328 Greek: prosdokao

Look (For), Looking (After, For):

"to await, expect" (pros, "to" or "towards," dokeo, "to think, be of opinion"), is translated "to look for," e.g., in Mat 11:3; 2Pe 3:12, 13, 14; the RV renders it by the verb "to expect, to be in expectation," in some instances, as does the AV in Luk 3:15; Act 3:5.
See EXPECT.

A-2 Verb Strong's Number: g4327 Greek: prosdechomai

Look (For), Looking (After, For):

"to receive favorably," also means "to expect," and is rendered "to look for," e.g., in Luk 2:38; 23:51; Act 24:15, RV (AV, "allow"); Tts 2:13; Jud 1:21.
See ACCEPT, A, No. 3, ALLOW, No. 4.

A-3 Verb Strong's Number: g1551 Greek: ekdechomai

Look (For), Looking (After, For):

primarily "to receive from another," hence, "to expect, to await," is translated "he looked for" in Hbr 11:10; in 1Cr 16:11, AV, "I look for" (RV, "I expect").
See EXPECT, No. 1.

Notes:

(1) In Phl 3:20; Hbr 9:28, AV, apekdechomai (the verb in the preceding No. extended by apo, "from"), "to await" or "expect eagerly," is translated "look for" (RV, "wait for;" so AV everywhere else).
See WAIT.

(2) In Act 28:6, AV, prosdokao, "to expect," is translated "they looked" (RV, "they expected"), and "they had looked" (RV, "they were long in expectation").

B-1 Noun Strong's Number: g4329 Greek: prosdokia

Look (For), Looking (After, For):

akin to A, No. 1, is translated "a looking after" in Luk 21:26, AV ("expectation," as in Act 12:11, AV and RV).
See EXPECTATION.

B-2 Noun Strong's Number: g1561 Greek: ekdoche

Look (For), Looking (After, For):

akin to A, No. 3, is translated "looking for" in Hbr 10:27, AV.
See EXPECTATION.

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