'Wait' in the Bible
Please do not depart from here until I come back to You, and bring my offering and place it before You.” And He said, “I will wait until you return.”
Now then, get up during the night, you and the people who are with you, and set up an ambush in the field.
So Abimelech and all the people who were with him got up during the night, and set up an ambush against Shechem, in four companies.
So he took his people and divided them into three companies, and set an ambush in the field; and he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. And he rose up against them and struck them down.
The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” So they surrounded the place and waited all night at the gate of the city to ambush him. They kept quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is light, we will kill him.”
Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he broke the cords as a string of tow breaks when it touches fire. So [the secret of] his strength was not discovered.
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in the inner room. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like [sewing] thread.
So they instructed the sons of Benjamin, saying, “Go, set an ambush in the vineyards,
Bible Theasaurus
- Await (22 instances)
- Delay (59 instances)
- Expect (43 instances)
- Look (1613 instances)
- Wait (245 instances)
- Waiting (294 instances)
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