ἀποκαραδοκία
apokaradokía · G603 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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what one eagerly expects, eager expectancy, eager desire
That which one looks forward to with eagerness and desire
ExamplesRomans 8:19 For the eagerly awaiting creation waits for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God.
Philippians 1:20 according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
- κτίσιςcreation, creature 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅτιthat, because 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπεκδέχομαιto look forward eagerly 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- κατάaccording to, against, down 2
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
- ἐλπίς elpís · G1680 · to hope, to hope for, hope
- Both terms involve forward-looking anticipation. However, ἐλπίς is the standard term for hope/expectation with focus on the content hoped for, while ἀποκαραδοκία emphasizes the intensity and eager straining of the anticipation itself.
In the other Testament 1 word
- תּוֹחֶלֶת tôwcheleth · H8431 · hope
- The Hebrew noun תּוֹחֶלֶת denotes expectation and hope, a suitable translation equivalent for ἀποκαραδοκία in contexts of eager anticipation, capturing the forward-looking expectation that defines the target.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- What one eagerly expects, eager expectancy, eager desire25.64
- In Philippians 1:20, Paul writes “according to my eager expectation (apokaradokían) and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything,” describing an intense, forward-leaning anticipation.
Word family 19 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀποκαραδοκιας, ἡ (from ἀποκαραδόκειν, and this from ἀπό, κάρα, the head, and δοκεῖν in…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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