Hebrew verb · H3176
יָחַל
yachalyaw-chal'
to wait: wait
41 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâchal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3176is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3176
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
The King James renders it: (cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained, stay, tarry, trust, 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
yachal is rendered "to wait: wait". It stands 41 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 8:12And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.
The first use
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
Genesis 8:12וַיִּיָּ֣חֶל
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
- I will wait7
- I hope5
- wait3
- and he waited2
- and they waited2
- hope2
- and I waited1
- and they have waited1
- and will I wait1
- I am waiting1
- I have hoped1
- I have waited1
and 14 more, 41 uses in all
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.
All 41, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
31 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
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃5
- אֲיַחֵ֑ל4
- הוֹחִ֣ילִי3
- אוֹחִ֥יל2
- אוֹחִֽיל׃ ס1
- אוֹחִ֜ילָה1
- אוֹחִ֖ילָה1
- אֹחִ֣ילָה1
- הוֹחַ֨לְתִּי1
- הוֹחָ֑לְתִּי1
- הוֹחָֽלְתִּי׃1
- הַ֝מְיַחֲלִ֗ים1
and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular5HVpp1cs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular4HVpi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular3HVhc1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhp1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singular3HVhv2fs
- Hc/Vpq3cp2Hc/Vpq3cp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine plural2HTd/Vprmpa
- verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpv2ms
- Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
- Hc/Vhw3ms1Hc/Vhw3ms
- Hc/VNw3ms1Hc/VNw3ms
Genesis
one use
And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.
- וַיִּיָּ֣חֶלvaiyiyachelHc/VNw3mstagged: and he waited
1 Samuel
two uses
And you shall go before me to Gilgal, and surely I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.”
- תּוֹחֵל֙tochelverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: may you wait
And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.
- וַיּ֣וֹחֶלvaiyichelHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he waited
2 Samuel
one use
But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.
- אֹחִ֣ילָהʾochilahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
2 Kings
one use
While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
- אוֹחִ֥ילʾochilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: will I wait
Job
eight uses
What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?
- אֲיַחֵ֑לʾayachelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.
- אֲיַחֵ֑לʾayachelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hope
When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
- אֲיַחֵ֑לʾayachelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel.
- וְיִחֵ֑לּוּveyicheluconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: and they waited
They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.
- וְיִֽחֲל֣וּveyichaluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they waited
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- וַֽאֲיַחֲלָ֥הvaayachalahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I waited
Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,
- הוֹחַ֨לְתִּיhochaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I waited
Must I wait, now that they are silent, now that they stand and no longer reply?
- וְ֭הוֹחַלְתִּיvehochaltiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and will I wait
Psalms
nineteen uses
Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.
- הַ֝מְיַחֲלִ֗יםhamyachalimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those wait
Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- לַֽמְיַחֲלִ֥יםlamyachalimpreposition with the article + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: to the hope
May Your loving devotion rest on us, O LORD, as we put our hope in You.
- יִחַ֥לְנוּyichalnuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we hope
I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God.
- הוֹחָ֑לְתִּיhochaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have waited
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- הוֹחִ֣ילִיhochiliverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: wait
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- הוֹחִ֣ילִיhochiliverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: wait
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- הוֹחִ֣ילִיhochiliverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: wait
I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
- מְ֝יַחֵ֗לmeyachelverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: waiting
But I will always hope and will praise You more and more.
- אֲיַחֵ֑לʾayachelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
Never take Your word of truth from my mouth, for I hope in Your judgments.
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃yichaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hope
Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have given me hope.
- יִֽחַלְתָּֽנִי׃yichaltaniverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you have made hope me
May those who fear You see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in Your word.
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃yichaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have hoped
My soul faints for Your salvation; I wait for Your word.
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃yichaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hope
You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃yichaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hope
I rise before dawn and cry for help; in Your word I have put my hope.
- יִחָֽלְתִּי׃yichaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hope
I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope.
- הוֹחָֽלְתִּי׃hochaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hope
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.
- יַחֵ֥לyachelverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hope
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.
- יַחֵ֣לyachelverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hope
The LORD is pleased with those who fear Him, who hope in His loving devotion.
- הַֽמְיַחֲלִ֥יםhamyachalimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those hope
Isaiah
two uses
He will not grow weak or discouraged before He has established justice on the earth. In His law the islands will put their hope.”
- יְיַחֵֽילוּ׃ פyeyacheiluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will wait
My righteousness draws near, My salvation is on the way, and My arms will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look for Me and wait in hope for My arm.
- יְיַחֵלֽוּן׃yeyachelunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will hope
Jeremiah
one use
My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.
- אוֹחִ֜ילָהʾachulahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am waiting
Lamentations
two uses
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
- אוֹחִֽיל׃ סʾochilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
- אוֹחִ֥ילʾochilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will wait
Ezekiel
two uses
They see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
- וְיִֽחֲל֖וּveyichaluHc/Vpq3cptagged: and they have waited
When she saw that she had waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.
- נֽוֹחֲלָ֔הnochalahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she waited
Micah
two uses
Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- יְיַחֵ֖לyeyachelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it waits
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- אוֹחִ֖ילָהʾochilahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will 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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
