ἀποκαραδοκία

English (LSJ)

ἡ,

   A earnest expectation, Ep.Rom.8.19, Ep.Phil.1.20.

German (Pape)

[Seite 305] ἡ, sehnliche Erwartung, N. T.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

ἀποκᾰρᾱδοκία: ἡ, ἔνθερμος προσδοκία, («προσδοκία, ἀπεκδοχὴ» καθ’ Ἡσύχ.), Ἐπιστ. π. Ρωμ. η΄, 19, πρὸς Φιλ. α΄, 20.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ας (ἡ) :
attente impatiente.
Étymologie: ἀποκαραδοκέω.

Spanish (DGE)

-ας, ἡ
espera c. gen. subjet. τῆς κτίσεως Ep.Rom.8.19, cf. Hsch.
•abs. expectación, Ep.Phil.1.20, cf. Et.Gud.171.14.

English (Strong)

from a comparative of ἀπό and a compound of kara (the head) and δοκέω (in the sense of watching); intense anticipation: earnest expectation.

English (Thayer)

ἀποκαραδοκιας, ἡ (from ἀποκαραδόκειν, and this from ἀπό, κάρα, the head, and δοκεῖν in the Ionic dialect, to watch; hence, καραδόκειν (Herodotus 7. 163,168; Xenophon, mem. 3,5, 6; Euripides, others) to watch with head erect or outstretched, to direct attention to anything, to wait for in suspense; ἀποκαραδόκειν (Polybius 16,2, 8; 18,31, 4; 22,19, 3; (Plutarch, parall., p. 310,43, vol. vii., p. 235, Reiske edition); Josephus, b. j. 3,7, 26, and in Aq. for הִתהולֵל), anxiously (?) to look forth from one's post. But the prefix ἀπό refers also to time (like the German ab in abwarten (cf. English wait it out)), so that it signifies constancy in expecting; hence, the noun, found in Paul alone and but twice, denotes), anxious (?) and persistent expectation: Lightfoot on Philippians , the passage cited).

Greek Monolingual

ἀποκαραδοκία, η (AM)
εναγώνια προσδοκία.