Quick Definition
I wait for
Strong's Definition
to stay around, i.e. await
Derivation: from G4012 (περί) and G3306 (μένω);
KJV Usage: wait for
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
περιμένω; (περί further (cf. περί, III. 2)); to wait for: τί, Act_1:4. (Gen_49:18; Wis_8:12; Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Josephus, Plutarch, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
περιμένω perimenō 1x
to await, wait for, Act_1:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
περι -μένω ,
[in LXX : Gen_49:18 ( H6960 pi .), Wis_8:12 * ;]
to wait for: c . acce., Act_1:4 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
περιμένω [page 506]
wait for ( Act_1:4 ); cf. P Giss I. 73 .4 (time of Hadrian) ἐκομισάμην σου τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἡδέως καὶ περιμένω σε , P Oxy XIV. 1762 .10 (ii/iii A.D.) οὔπω μέντοι εἰς διαλλαγὰς ἐλθεῖν ἠθέλησεν . . . σὲ περιμένων , and BGU II. 388 ii. 39 (ii/iii A.D.) ε [ν ] ᾑ πλαστυγραφίᾳ περιμ [ένο ]ν ἐστὶν τὸ ὄνομα .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
περιμένω fut. -μενῶ "to wait for, await", Hdt. , Ar. , etc. of events, "to await, be in store for", Soph. , Plat. c. inf., οὐ περιμένουσιν ἄλλους σφᾶς διολέσαι "they do" not "wait for" others to destroy them, Plat. ; μηδ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἑαυτὸν [ταῦτα] ἐλθεῖν π. Dem. absol. "to wait, stand still", Hdt. , Ar. , etc.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
περι-μένω
[in LXX: Gen.49:18 (קָוָה pi.), Wis.8:12 * ;]
to wait for: with acce., Act.1:4.†
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