“to await, expect” (pros, “to” or “towards,” dokeo, “to think, be of opinion”), is translated “to look for,” e.g., in Mat 11:3<\/span>; 2Pe 3:12-14<\/span>; the RV renders it by the verb “to expect, to be in expectation,” in some instances, as does the AV in Luk 3:15<\/span>; Act 3:5<\/span>, See EXPECT. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n “to receive favorably,” also means “to expect,” and is rendered “to look for,” e.g., in Luk 2:38<\/span>; Luk 23:51<\/span>; Act 24:15<\/span>, RV (AV, “allow”); Tit 2:13<\/span>; Jud 1:21<\/span>. See ACCEPT, A, No. 3, ALLOW, No. 4. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n primarily “to receive from another,” hence, “to expect, to await,” is translated “he looked for” in Heb 11:10<\/span>; in 1Co 16:11<\/span>, AV, “I look for” (RV, “I expect”). See EXPECT, No. 1. <\/p>\n Notes: (1) In Phi 3:20<\/span>; Heb 9:28<\/span>, AV, apekdechomai (the verb in the preceding No. extended by apo, “from”), “to await” or “expect eagerly,” is translated “look for” (RV, “wait for;” so AV everywhere else). See WAIT. (2) In Act 28:6<\/span>, AV, prosdokao, “to expect,” is translated “they looked” (RV, “they expected”), and “they had looked” (RV, “they were long in expectation”). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 1, is translated “a looking after” in Luk 21:26<\/span>, AV (“expectation,” as in Act 12:11<\/span>, AV and RV). See EXPECTATION. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n akin to A, No. 3, is translated “looking for” in Heb 10:27<\/span>, AV. See EXPECTATION. <\/p>\n Look (for), Looking (after, for) “to await, expect” (pros, “to” or “towards,” dokeo, “to think, be of opinion”), is translated “to look for,” e.g., in Mat 11:3; 2Pe 3:12-14; the RV renders it by the verb “to expect, to be in expectation,” in some instances, as does the AV in Luk 3:15; Act 3:5, See … Continue reading “Look (for), Looking (after, for)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"