noun · feminine
prosdokias
Strong’sG4329
expectation, waiting
stem prosdoki-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
προσδοκία, -ας, ἡ
(< προσδοκάω), [in LXX: Ge 49:10 (יִקְהָה), Ps 118 (119):116 (שֵׂבֶר), Wi 17:13, Si 40:2, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4329 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpros-dok-ee'-ah
apprehension (of evil); by implication, infliction anticipated
Fromfrom G4328;
King Jamesexpectation, looking after.
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
looking for, expectation, whether in hope or fear, but more commonly fear,
1 with genitive, μέλλοντος κακοῦ, δεινῶν, Refs 5th c.BC+: in good sense, π. ἀγαθῶν ἐμβάλλειν Refs 5th c.BC+; τῆς ἀσφαλείας ἔχειν π. Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰς τῶν ἔργων προσδοκίας ἀπαιτεῖν τινα, i.e. the fulfilment of the expectations raised, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 absolutely, τῶν ὑποκειμένων π. καὶ τῶν ἐλπίδων Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ ἔσχαται π. Refs 1st c.BC+
3 followed by a conjunction, προσδοκία οὐδεμία (i.e. ἦν) μὴ ἐπιπλεύσειαν Refs 5th c.BC+
4 with Preps., πρὸς προσδοκίαν according to expectation, Refs 5th c.BC+; κατὰ τὴν π. Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to παρὰ προσδοκίαν, which is used of a kind of joke frequently in Comedy texts, e.g. ἔχειν ὑπὸ ποσσὶ—χίμεθλα (where πέδιλα was expected), Refs 4th c.BC+
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.
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 | prosdokias | prosdokiais |
| object accusative | prosdokian | prosdokiain |
| direct address vocative | prosdokiar | prosdokiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | prosdokiau2×προσδοκίας | prosdokiaiu |
| to, for dative | prosdokia | prosdokiai |
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
prosdokia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
prosdokiau“expecting”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Luke 21:26“expectation”apopsucharōntoiu anthrōpoiu apo fobou kai prosdokiau teiu eperchorōnteiu ta oikoumena, tais gar …… will faint from fear and anxiety over what is coming upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens will …
Acts 12:11“expecting”… ek cheirau Hērōdou kai pantau tau prosdokiau tou laou toiu Ioudaioiu.… rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”