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Strong’s H2442 · Hebrew

חָכָה

châkâh · khaw-kaw'

Origin a primitive root (apparently akin to חָקָה (H2707) through the idea of piercing);

Meaning properly, to adhere to; hence, to await

In the King James Version long, tarry, wait.

In 13 verses of the King James Version

  1. 2 Kings 7:9Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
  2. 2 Kings 9:3Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
  3. Job 3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
  4. Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
  5. Psalms 33:20Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
  6. Psalms 106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
  7. Isaiah 8:17And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
  8. Isaiah 30:18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
  9. Isaiah 64:4For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
  10. Daniel 12:12Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
  11. Hosea 6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
  12. Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
  13. Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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