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1.
(
#
!
, 1551), lit. and primarily, “to take or receive from” ( ,
“from,”
, “to receive”), hence denotes “to await, expect,” the only sense of the
word in the NT; it suggests a reaching out in readiness to receive something; “expecting,”
Heb. 10:13; “expect,” 1 Cor. 16:11,
RV
(
KJV
, “look for”); to wait for, John 5:3 (
KJV
only);
Acts 17:16; 1 Cor. 11:33,
RV
(
KJV
, “tarry for”); Jas. 5:7; to wait, 1 Pet. 3:20 in some mss.;
“looked for,” Heb. 11:10. Cf. B, No. 1. See
LOOK
,
TARRY
,
WAIT
.¶
2.
(
$
1
, 4328), “to watch toward, to look for, expect” (
,
“toward,”
, “to think”:
“does not exist”), is translated “expecting” in Matt.
24:50 and Luke 12:46,
RV
(
KJV
, “looketh for”); Luke 3:15, “were in expectation”; Acts
3:5,“expecting” (
KJV
and
RV
); 28:6 (twice), “expected that,”
RV
(
KJV
, “looked when”) and
“when they were long in expectation” (
KJV
, “after they had looked a great while”). See
LOOK
,
TARRY
,
WAIT
.
B. Nouns.
1.
(
$
&
, 603), primarily “a watching with outstretched
head” ( , “from,”
, “the head,” and
, “to look, to watch”), signifies “strained
expectancy, eager longing,” the stretching forth of the head indicating an “expectation” of
something from a certain place, Rom. 8:19 and Phil. 1:20. The prefix
suggests
“abstraction and absorption” (Lightfoot), i.e., abstraction from anything else that might
engage the attention, and absorption in the object expected “till the fulfillment is
realized” (Alford). The intensive character of the noun, in comparison with No. 2
(below), is clear from the contexts; in Rom. 8:19 it is said figuratively of the creation as
waiting for the revealing of the sons of God (“waiting” translates the verb
,
a strengthened form of A, No. 1; see
WAIT
FOR). In Phil. 1:20 the apostle states it as his
“earnest expectation” and hope, that, instead of being put to shame, Christ shall be
magnified in his body, “whether by life, or by death,” suggesting absorption in the person
of Christ, abstraction from aught that hinders.¶
2.
(
$
&
, 4329), “a watching for, expectation” (akin to A, No. 2,
which see), is used in the NT only of the “expectation” of evil, Luke 21:26,
RV
,
“expectation,”
KJV
, “looking for,” regarding impending calamities; Acts 12:11, “the
expectation” of the execution of Peter.¶
3.
(
#
)
, 1561), primarily “a receiving from,” hence, “expectation” (akin
to A, No. 1), is used in Heb. 10:27 (
RV
, “expectation”;
KJV
, “looking for”), of judgment.
EXPEDIENT
$
(
!$
, 4851) signifies (a), transitively, lit., “to bring together,” (
$
,
“with,”
, “to bring”), Acts 19:19; (b) intransitively, “to be an advantage, profitable,
expedient” (not merely ‘convenient’); it is used mostly impersonally, “it is (it was)
expedient”; so in Matt. 19:10,
RV
(negatively),
KJV
, “it is (not) good”; John 11:50; 16:7;
18:14; 1 Cor. 6:12; 10:23; 2 Cor. 8:10; 12:1; “it is profitable,” Matt. 5:29-30; 18:6,
RV
;
“was profitable,” Acts 20:20; “to profit withal,” 1 Cor. 12:7; in Heb. 12:10, used in the
neuter of the present participle with the article as a noun, “for (our) profit.” See
PROFIT
.¶