קָוָה
qa.vah (H6960A)
to await
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# The Hebrew Word קָוָה (Qavah): "To Await" The Hebrew word קָוָה (qavah) appears 46 times throughout the Bible with the primary meaning "to await." This verb describes the action of waiting for something or someone, capturing the human experience of expectation and patient endurance. The word's frequency across the biblical text—appearing in nearly five dozen instances—suggests it addresses a theme of considerable importance to the biblical writers and their audiences. The semantic range of "await" encompasses both literal waiting and the more abstract sense of hoping or expecting. This flexibility allows the word to function in various contexts: from the concrete (waiting for a person or event) to the spiritual (waiting for divine deliverance or fulfillment of promises). The relatively high frequency of occurrence indicates that the concept of waiting held significant cultural and religious weight in biblical thought, likely reflecting the realities of a community dependent on divine providence and the fulfillment of covenantal promises. Without access to additional usage examples or contextual data from the lexicon entry, the full nuance of how different biblical authors employed this term remains limited. However, the basic definition establishes קָוָה as a fundamental vocabulary item for expressing patience, expectation, and the state of remaining in anticipation—concepts that appear throughout biblical narrative and poetry.
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Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.
Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.
I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.
Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is Yahweh! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”
Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.
Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”
My righteousness is near. My salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The islands will wait for me, and they will trust my arm.
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
We all roar like bears and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
When you did awesome things which we didn’t look for, you came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence.
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.