Hebrew verb · H2442
חָכָה
chakahkhaw-kaw'
to wait
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châkâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2442is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2442
properly, to adhere to; hence, to await
The King James renders it: long, tarry, wait.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chakah is rendered "to wait". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 7:9Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
2 Kings 7:9וְחִכִּ֛ינוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- wait3
- and as wait for1
- and I will wait1
- and we will delay1
- for waits1
- he had waited1
- he is waiting1
- it waits1
- the waits1
- they waited1
- those long1
- you must delay1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חָכָם | chakam | wise | Uses138 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַֽמְחַכֶּ֖ה1
- הַֽמְחַכִּ֣ים1
- וְחִכִּ֛ינוּ1
- וְחִכִּ֙יתִי֙1
- וּכְחַכֵּ֨י1
- ח֥וֹכֵי1
- חִכָּ֣ה1
- חַכֵּה־1
- חִ֝כּ֗וּ1
- חַכּוּ־1
- חִכְּתָ֣ה1
- יְחַכֶּ֤ה1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Vprmpc
- Hc/Vpq1cp1Hc/Vpq1cp
- Hc/Vpq1cs1Hc/Vpq1cs
- preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Vprmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vprmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vprmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine plural1HVpv2mp
2 Kings
two uses
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- וְחִכִּ֛ינוּvechikinuHc/Vpq1cptagged: and we will delay
Then take the flask of oil, pour it on his head, and declare, ‘This is what the LORD says: I anoint you king over Israel.’ Then open the door and run. Do not delay!”
- תְחַכֶּֽה׃techakehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you must delay
Job
two uses
who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- הַֽמְחַכִּ֣יםhamchakimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those long
Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.
- חִכָּ֣הchikahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had waited
Psalms
two uses
Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.
- חִכְּתָ֣הchiketahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it waits
Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
- חִ֝כּ֗וּchikuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they waited
Isaiah
four uses
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- וְחִכִּ֙יתִי֙vechikitiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I will wait
Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
- יְחַכֶּ֤הyechakehverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is waiting
- ח֥וֹכֵיchokheiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wait
From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
- לִמְחַכֵּה־limchakeh-preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for waits
Daniel
one use
Blessed is he who waits and reaches the end of the 1,335 days.
- הַֽמְחַכֶּ֖הhamchakehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: the waits
Hosea
one use
Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
- וּכְחַכֵּ֨יukhechakeiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and as wait for
Habakkuk
one use
For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay.
- חַכֵּה־chakeh-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: wait
Zephaniah
one use
Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
- חַכּוּ־chaku-verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: wait
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.