ἀποκαραδοκία: Difference between revisions

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|txtha=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).

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