KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To remain in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: To attend or serve. Sense 3: As a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Exodus 21:13
Complete exact-word concordance
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
And if a man lye not in wait, but God deliuer him into his hand, then I will appoint thee a place whither hee shall flee:
1611 marginal noteDeut. 19.3.
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sonnes, and they shall waite on their priests office: and the stranger that commeth nigh, shall bee put to death.
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
This is it that belongeth vnto the Leuites: from twentie and fiue yeeres old, and vpward, they shall goe in to waite vpon the seruice of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to warre the warfare of &c.
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurle at him by laying of waite that he die,
1611 marginal noteDeut. 19.11.
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
But if hee thrust him suddenly without enmitie, or haue cast vpon him any thing without laying of wait,
1611 marginal noteExod. 21.13.
¶ But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
¶ But if any man hate his neighbour and lie in wait for him, and rise vp against him, and smite him mortally that hee die, and fleeth into one of these Cities:
1611 marginal noteHebr. in life.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the citie, euen behind the citie: goe not very farre from the citie, but be ye all ready:
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
And when they had set the people, euen all the hoste that was on the North of the city, and their liers in wait on the West of the citie: Ioshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
1611 marginal noteHebr. their lying in wait.
And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
And the men of Shechem set lyers in wait for him in the toppe of the mountaines, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Now therefore vp by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field.
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Historical English dictionary sources
an ambush.
