Word

περιμένω

periménō · G4037 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

to await, to wait for

To remain in a place and/or state, with expectancy concerning a future event

Examples
Acts 1:4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, “Which,” He said, “you heard of from Me;

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Not stated (infinitive) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐπαγγελίαpromise 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 2 groups

παραγγέλλωto order, to command 1
συναλίζωto eat with 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

ἐκδέχομαι ekdéchomai · G1551 · to await, to wait for, to expect: περιμένω and ἐκδέχομαι both share the core sense of awaiting or waiting for something. ἐκδέχομαι has a somewhat broader range, extending to expectation and remaining until an event occurs, but both converge in the shared sense of waiting.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To await, to wait for85.60: περιμένω describes waiting in expectation for something to occur. Luke records Jesus's instruction to the disciples before Pentecost: “but wait for what the Father had promised, ‘Which,’ He said, ‘you heard of from Me’” (Acts 1:4, where περιμένω is rendered “wait for”).

Word family 27 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (περί further (cf. περί, III. 2)); to wait for: τί, Acts 1:4. (Gen 49:18; Wis. 8:12;…

(περί further (cf. περί, III. 2)); to wait for: τί, Acts 1:4. (Gen 49:18; Wis. 8:12; Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Plutarch, others.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Remain, Stay1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0