'Wait' in the Bible

Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, "Don't depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.'

But Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, and he came and entered into the barracks and told Paul.

Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."

While the day was coming on, Paul begged them all to take some food, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that you wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.