STRONGS G603:
ἀποκαραδοκία,
-ας,
ἡ, (from
ἀποκαραδοκεῖν, and this from
ἀπό,
κάρα, the head, and
δοκεῖν in the Ionic dialect, to watch; hence,
καραδοκεῖν [Herodotus 7. 163, 168; Xenophon, mem. 3, 5, 6; Euripides, others] to watch with head erect or outstretched, to direct attention to anything, to wait for in suspense;
ἀποκαραδοκεῖν (Polybius 16, 2, 8; 18, 31, 4; 22, 19, 3; [Plutarch, parall., p. 310, 43, vol. vii., p. 235, Reiske edition]; Josephus,
b. j. 3, 7, 26, and in
Psalm 36:7 (
Ps. 37:7)
Aq. for
חִתְחוֹלַל), anxiously [?] to look forth from one's post. But the prefix
ἀπό refers also to time (like the German
ab in
abwarten [cf. English wait it out]), so that it signifies constancy in expecting; hence, the noun, found in Paul alone and but twice, denotes),
anxious [?]
and persistent expectation:
Romans 8:19;
Philippians 1:20. This word is very fully discussed by
C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opuscc., p. 150ff; [cf. Ellicott and Lightfoot on Philippians, the passage cited].
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