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 as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
And as troupes of robbers waite for a man, so the company of priestes murther in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse.
1611 marginal noteHebr. with one shoulder. Or, to Sichem.
1611 marginal noteOr, enormitie.
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
For they haue made ready their heart like an ouen, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night, in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
1611 marginal noteOr, applied.
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
Therefore turne thou to thy God: keepe mercie and iudgement, and wait on thy God continually.
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Historical English dictionary sources
an ambush.
