ἀπεκδέχομαι
waiting for
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
Voice
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural 3 times (38%)
- Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G553 appears — 8 distinct verses across 6 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Romans 3 verses
- Romans 8:19 ἀπεκδέχεται pres mid/pass.dep ind 3sg For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.
- Romans 8:23 ἀπεκδεχόμενοι pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom pl masc Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
- Romans 8:25 ἀπεκδεχόμεθα pres mid/pass.dep ind 1pl But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Galatians 1 verse
Philippians 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, απεκδεχομαι (apekdéchomai) means “waiting for.” It first appears in Romans 8:19. Spanning 8 verses in 6 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Romans (38% of all occurrences). Sharing its root, it stands alongside απο, απαγγελλω and απαγχομαι. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G553 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 3 verses 38%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 13%
- Galatians 1 verse 13%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 75%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Wait for 2×
- American Standard Version: Waiting for 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Eagerly await 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Eagerly await 1×, Eagerly expecting 1×, Eagerly wait for 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G553 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G553 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G553 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G553 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- assiduously and patiently waiting for
Word origin
Derived from απο (apó) (G575) — from.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G553 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπεκδεχόμεθα apekdechómetha | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 1st person, Plural | Romans 8:25 | 3 |
| ἀπεκδέχεται apekdéchetai | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Romans 8:19 | 1 |
| ἀπεκδεχομένοις apekdechoménois | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Hebrews 9:28 | 1 |
| ἀπεκδεχομένους apekdechoménous | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 1:7 | 1 |
| ἀπεκδεχόμενοι apekdechómenoi | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Romans 8:23 | 1 |
| ἀπεξεδέχετο apexedécheto | Verb, Imperfect, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Peter 3:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G553, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- απαγγελλω apangéllō G518 to report
- απαγχομαι apánchomai G519 to strangle
- απαγω apágō G520 to lead away
- απαιρω apaírō G522 to take away
- απαιτεω apaitéō G523 to demand back
- απαλγεω apalgéō G524 to cease grieving
- απαλλασσω apallássō G525 to depart
- απαλλοτριοω apallotrióō G526 to estrange
- απανταω apantáō G528 to meet
- απαρνεομαι aparnéomai G533 to deny
- απαρτι apárti G534 henceforth
- απαρχη aparchḗ G536 to offer firstfruits
- απαυγασμα apaúgasma G541 brightness
- απειδω apeídō G542 to look away
- απειμι ápeimi G548 to depart
- απειμι ápeimi G549 to depart
- απειπομην apeipómēn G550 to declare
- απεκδυομαι apekdýomai G554 to despoil
- απελαυνω apelaúnō G556 to drive away
- απελεγμος apelegmós G557 censure
- απελευθερος apeleútheros G558 freedman
- απελπιζω apelpízō G560 not despairing
- απεναντι apénanti G561 opposite
- απερχομαι apérchomai G565 to depart
+85 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 111 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
