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Await (Hastings' Dictionary)
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain
Only Ac 9" * their laying await (Gr. i) ^iri/SouXJ) airuv, KV ' their plot ') was known of Saul.' Await is often read as if it were an adv.; it is, however, a subst. Tindale has simply ' There awjij-te wer knowen of Saul.' Blount, Law Diet. (16'J1), says, 'Await seems to signify what we now call waylaying or lying in wait, to execute some mischief.' J. HASTINGS.
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia on Await
Await a-wat': Only in Ac 9:24 the King James Version, in its now obsolete sense as a noun, "ambush": "their laying await was known of Saul." the Revised Version (British and American) "their plot." ⇒See the definition of await in the KJV Dictionary
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- Nave, O.J. (1897) Nave's Topical Bible. Topical Bible Publishing Co.. [Public Domain]
- Hastings, J. (ed.) (1909) A Dictionary of the Bible. Edinburgh: T&T Clark. [Public Domain]
- Smith, W. (ed.) (1884) Smith's Bible Dictionary. London: John Murray. [Public Domain]
- Fausset, A.R. (1878) Fausset's Bible Dictionary. [Public Domain]A Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopaedia