ekdochas

Strong’sG1561

a waiting for, expectation

stem ekdoch-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

* ἐκ-δοχή -ῆς, ἡ

(< ἐκδέχομαι);

1. in cl.,

(a) a receiving from, succession;

(b) an interpretation.

2. In NT, = προσδοκία, expectation: He 10:27 (cf. Field, Notes, 231; Cremer, 688).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1561 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidek-dokh-ay'

expectation

Fromfrom G1551;

King Jameslooking for.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

δόξᾰ, ἡ,
(δοκέω, δέκομαι) expectation, οὐδ᾽ ἀπὸ δόξης not otherwise than one expects, Refs 8th c.BC+; ἐν δόξᾳ θέμενος εὖχος hoping for.., Refs 5th c.BC+; δόξαν παρέχειν τινὶ μὴ ποιήσεσθαι.. to make one expect that.., Refs 5th c.BC+; δόξαν παρέχεσθαί τινι ὡς.., with participle, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ τῆς δ. πεσέειν, = Latin spe excidere, Refs 5th c.BC+
II after Refs 8th c.BC+, notion, opinion, judgement, whether well grounded or not, βροτῶν δόξαι Refs 5th c.BC+; κατά γε τὴν ἐμήν, with or without δόξαν, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to νόησις, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀληθεῖ δόξῃ δοξασταί capable of being subjects of true opinion, Refs 4th c.BC+; κύριαι δ. philosophical maxims, title of work by Epicurus, Refs 1st c.BC+axioms, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 mere opinion, conjecture, δόξῃ ἐπίστασθαι, ἡγεῖσθαι, imagine, suppose (wrongly), Refs 5th c.BC+; δόξαι joined with φαντασίαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ δόξαν, opposed to κατ᾽ οὐσίαν, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὡς δόξῃ χρώμενοι speaking by guess, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 fancy, vision, δ. ἀκόνας λιγυρᾶς Refs 5th c.BC+; of a dream, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, hallucinations, Refs 6th c.AD+
III the opinion which others have of one, estimation, repute, first in Refs 6th c.BC+
III.2 mostly, good repute, honour, glory, Refs 7th c.BC+; δόξαν σχεῖν τινός for a thing, Refs 5th c.BC+; δ. ἔχειν ὥς εἰσι.. Refs 5th c.BC+
III.3 rarely of ill repute, [δ.] ἀντὶ καλῆς αἰσχρὰν τῇ πόλει περιάπτειν Refs 4th c.BC+
III.4 popular repute or estimate, εἰσφέρων οὐκ ἀφ᾽ ὑπαρχούσης οὐσίας.. ἀλλ᾽ ἀπὸ τῆς δόξης ὧν ὁ πατήρ μοι κατέλιπεν Refs 4th c.BC+
IV of external appearance, glory, splendour, especially of the Shechinah, LXX+NT: generally, magnificence, πλοῦτον καὶ δ. LXX+NT; especially of celestial beatitude, NT; also of illustrious persons, dignities, δόξας οὐ τρέμουσιν NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

expectation1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	ekdochas1×ἐκδοχὴ	ekdochais
object accusative	ekdochan	ekdochain
direct address vocative	ekdochar	ekdochair
of, belonging to genitive	ekdochau	ekdochaiu
to, for dative	ekdocha	ekdochai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

ekdochstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

ekdocha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ekdochas“expectation”subjectnominative singular1×

Hebrews 10:27foberas de tinas ekdochas krisiau kai pureu zēlos esthiarō mellarōnteu …but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire …