'Waited' in the Bible

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.

I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.

The servants waited until they became worried and saw that he had still not opened the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened the doors—and there was their lord lying dead on the floor!

Ehud escaped while the servants waited. He crossed over the Jordan near the carved images and reached Seirah.

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father's family and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.

So Abimelech and all the people with him got up at night and waited in ambush for Shechem in four units.

He took the people, divided them into three companies, and waited in ambush in the countryside. He looked, and the people were coming out of the city, so he arose against them and struck them down.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

He got up early in the morning of the fifth day to leave, but the girl’s father said to him, “Please keep up your strength.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

He waited seven days for the appointed time that Samuel had set, but Samuel didn’t come to Gilgal, and the troops were deserting him.

David’s young men went and said all these things to Nabal on David’s behalf, and they waited.

Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him: “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”

The king said, "Turn aside and take your place here." So he turned aside and waited.

The girl was very beautiful; and she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king was not intimate with her.

So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

They returned to Elisha while he was staying at Jericho; and he said to them, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not go’?”

And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

And they say one unto another, 'We are not doing right this day; a day of tidings it is, and we are keeping silent; and -- we have waited till the light of the morning, then hath punishment found us; and now, come and we go in and declare to the house of the king.'

And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.

And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,

Who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

the food set at his table, his servants who waited on him, his ministers in attendance and how they were dressed, his personal staff and how they were dressed, and even his personal stairway by which he went up to the LORD's Temple, she was breathless!

These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the offerings, for the firstfruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.

The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

Guide me in your truth and teach me; for you are the God who delivers me. All day long I have waited for you.

Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield is He,

Let Thy kindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, As we have waited for Thee!

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

They attack, they lurk,They watch my steps,As they have waited to take my life.

Insults have broken my heart,and I am in despair.I waited for sympathy,but there was none;for comforters, but found no one.

They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy commands I have done.

I hoped for Jehovah -- hoped hath my soul, And for His word I have waited.

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

What -- to do still to my vineyard, That I have not done in it! Wherefore, I waited to the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got -- disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got -- cries for help!

And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: "If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.

O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

"Look up at the hilltops and consider this. You have had sex with other gods on every one of them. You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the desert. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.

Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed it for thick darkness.

Have You completely rejected Judah?Or have You loathed Zion?Why have You stricken us so that we are beyond healing?We waited for peace, but nothing good came;And for a time of healing, but behold, terror!

פ PeAll your enemiesopen their mouths against you.They hiss and gnash their teeth,saying, “We have swallowed her up.This is the day we have waited for!We have lived to see it.”

[And as for us,] yet our eyes failed,Looking in vain for help.Watching [from the towers] we watchedFor a nation that could not save.

Our pursuers were swifterThan the eagles of the sky;They chased us on the mountains,They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD.