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
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
The words of the wicked are to lie in waite for blood: but the mouth of the vpright shall deliuer them.
1611 marginal noteChap.1.11. & 18.
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Say not thou, I will recompence euil: but wait on the LORD, and he shall saue thee.
1611 marginal noteDeut.32.35. cha.17.13. and 24.29. rom.12.17. 1.thess. 5.15. 1.pet. 3.9.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
She also lyeth in wait as for a pray, and increaseth the transgressours among men.
1611 marginal noteOr, as a robber.
1611 marginal noteChap.7.12.
Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:
Lay not waite, (O wicked man) against the dwelling of the righteous: spoile not his resting place.
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Historical English dictionary sources
an ambush.
