Quick Definition
ἀπεκδέχομαι v. I expect eagerly, wait for eagerly
Strong's Definition
from 575 and 1551; to expect fully
KJV Usage: look (wait) foreign
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | δέχομαι
25.63 · Attitudes and Emotions · Hope, Look Forward To
to look forward eagerly, to await expectantly to await eagerly or expectantly for some future event
ROM 8:19 · ROM 8:23 · ROM 8:25 · 1CO 1:7 · GAL 5:5 · PHP 3:20 · HEB 9:28
13.28 · Be, Become, Exist, Happen · State
to remain until, to wait until to continue to remain in a state until an expected event
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀπεκδέχομαι apekdechomai 8x
to expect, wait or look for, Rom. 8:19, 23, 25; 1 Cor. 1:7; Gal. 5:5; Phil. 3:20; Heb. 9:28
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀπ-εκ-δέχομαι, depon., to await or expect eagerly (Lft., Notes, 149; MM, VGT, s.v.): absol., I Pe 3:20; c. acc. rei, Ro 8:19, 23, 25, I Co 1:7, Ga 5:5; c. acc. pers., Phl 3:20, He 9:28.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀπεκδέχομαι. This rare word is used in the apocryphal 4cta Pauld iii. of Onesiphorus on the outskirts of Lystra ‘waiting for” Paul’s arrival from Iconium—etorhker ἀπεκδεχόμενος αὐτόν. Nageli (p. 43) and LS s.v. give late ‘‘ profane” citations which make it perhaps possible that Paul was not the first to use a regularly formed perfective of ἐκδέχομαι, which becomes a favourite word with him: it also figures in r Pet and Heb, where of course borrowing from Paul is possible. But if late writers who never could have read him use the word, it is obviously conceivable that they coined it independently, as we may very probably suppose him to have done. See the next article.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀπεκδέχομαι (apekdechomai) — to expect. ἀπεκ-δέχομαι, expect anxiously, await eagerly, σωτῆρα[NT+2nd c.AD+]
II. misunderstand, misinterpret, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
II. b understand a word from the context, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]