Quick Definition
ἀποκαραδοκία, ας, ἡ n.f. eager expectation
Strong's Definition
from a comparative of 575 and a compound of kara (the head) and 1380 (in the sense of watching); intense anticipation
KJV Usage: earnest expectation
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | κάρα + δοκέω
25.64 · Attitudes and Emotions · Hope, Look Forward To
what one eagerly expects, eager expectancy, eager desire that which one looks forward to with eagerness and desire In ROM 8:19 (see 25.63) ἀποκαραδοκία serves in some respects to reinforce the meaning of ἀπεκδέχομαι, but it appears to add a significant component of desire.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀπο-καραδοκία, -as, ἡ, (fr. ἀποκαραδοκεῖν, and this fr. ἀπό, κάρα the head, and δοκεῖν in the Ion. dial. to watch ; hence καραδοκεῖν [Hdt. 7. 163, 168; Xen. mem. 3, 5, 6; Eur., al.] to watch with head erect or outstretched, to direct attention to anything, to wait for in suspense; ἀποκαραδοκεῖν (Polyb. 16, 2, 8; 18, 31, 4; 22, 19, 3; [Plut. parall. p. 310, 43, vol. vii. p. 235 ed. Reiske]; Joseph. b.j. 3, 7, 26, and in Ps. xxxvi. (xxxvii.) 7 Aq. for 55innn), anxiously [?] to look forth from one’s post. But the prefix ἀπό refers also to time (like the Germ. ab in abwarten, [ οἵ. Eng. wait it out]), so that it signifies constancy in expecting; hence the noun, found in Paul alone and but twice, denotes), anxious Ὁ] and persistent expectation: Ro. viii. 19; Phil. i. 20. This word is very ἀποκαταλλάσσω 6 fully discussed by C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opusce. p. 150 sqq.; [cf. Ellic. and Lghtft. on Phil. 1. e.].
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀποκαραδοκία apokaradokia 2x
earnest expectation, eager hope, Rom. 8:19; Phil. 1:20*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† ἀπο-καραδοκία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἀποκαραδοκέω, used by Aq. in Ps 36 (37):7 for התהוֹלל; < ἀπό, κάρα the head, δοκέω, in Ion., to watch),
to watch with outstretched head, watch anxiously (Polyb., π.; v. Deiss., LAE, 3745, 377 f.), Ro 8:19, Phl 1:20 (Lft., in l.; Cremer, 177).†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀποκαραδοκία (apokaradokia) — eager expectation. ἀποκᾰρᾱδοκ-ία, ἡ, earnest expectation, [NT]