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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary

Strong's #362 - ἀναμένω

Transliteration

anaménō

Phonetics

an-am-en'-o

Origin

from (G303) and (G3306)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer's

to wait for one (with the added notion of patience and trust)

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 6960 ‑ קָוָה (kaw‑vaw');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (1)

1 Thessalonians

NAS (1)

1 Thessalonians

HCS (1)

1 Thessalonians

BSB (1)

1 Thessalonians

ESV (1)

1 Thessalonians

WEB (1)

1 Thessalonians

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀναμένω,

poet. ἀμμένω, Aeol. ὀμμένω Alc. 41: —

1. wait for, await, ἀνέμεινα.. Ἠῶ δῖαν Od. 19.342; νύκτα, τὸν ἥλιον, Hdt. 7.42, 54; τέλος δίκης A. Eu. 243; freq. in E., and Att. Prose: — οὐδὲ.. ἐπιθυμίαν ἀναμένεις dost not wait for desire to arise, X. Mem. 2.1.30, cf. Smp. 4.41; ἀ. τινά Hdt. 9.57; face an enemy in battle, Pi. P. 6.31: c. acc. et inf., οὐκ ἀ. τοὺς Ἕλληνας μάχης ἄρξαι Hdt. 8.15: ἀ. φῦναι τὰς τρίχας Id. 5.35; ἀ. ἡμέραν γενέσθαι Th. 4.135, cf. 120: foll. by relat. clauses, ἀ. ἕως ἄν.. Pl. Ly. 209a; ἀ. αὐτοὺς ἔστ' ἐμφάγοιέν τι X. Cyr. 8.1.44; ποῖ χρῆν ἀναμεῖναι; i. e. ἐς τίνα χρόνον; Ar. Lys. 526: abs., wait, stay, Ἑρμῆς.. οὐκέτ' ἀμμένει S. El. 1397, cf. 1389, Tr. 528, Ar. Ra. 175: c. part., πεινῶν ἀ. Id. V. 777.

2. put off, delay, X. Cyr. 1.6.10: c. inf., D. 19.224.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἀνα -μένω ,

[in LXX for H6960 pi.;]

to await "one whose coming is expected, perhaps with the added idea of patience and confidence" c. acc, 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (v. M, Th., in l; MM, VGT, s.v.).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀναμένω occurs several times in the Alexandrian papyri of the reign of Augustus, collected in BGU IV. Thus 1151.35 (B.C. 13) μὴ ἀναμείναντας τὸν μεμερισμ (ένον) αὐτοῖς χρό (νον) μέχρι τοῦ ἐκτῖσαι τὸ ὅλον κεφάλ (αιον), and in almost the same terms 1053i. 83 (id.), 1055.29 (id.), 1156.18 (B.C. 15), 1167.54 (B.C. 12), of debtors who are to pay up without ";waiting for"; the time allowed them. The word is MGr.

List of Word Forms

αναμεμιγμένοι αναμεμιγμένον αναμεμιγμένος αναμενειν αναμένειν ἀναμένειν αναμενείτε αναμένων αναμίγνυται αναμίξαι ανεμείναμεν anamenein anaménein

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