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See Cart. WAIT (from the same root as 'wake' and 'watch') is used in AV both as subst. and verb. 1. As subst. the meaning is a watch, plot, esp. an ambush. The phrases are (a) Lie in wait, as Dt 19" ' But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him and smite him mor- tally that he die ' ; Jos 8^ ' Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city.'

So ' tiers in wait,' as Jg 9" 'And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the moun- tains.' (b) Lay wait, HS Jg 16'-' ' They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city ' ; Jer 9* ' One speaketli peaceably to his neighbour witli his mouth, but in heart he layeth jiis wait ' (KV as AVm ' layeth wait for him '). (c) Laying of wait, as Nu 35'^ ' But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at liim by laying of wait.'

Udall has ' lay a wait' {Erastmis' Paraph. i. 87), 'And in the meane tyme he touched secrete- lye the conscience of certayne I'hariseis, whiclie layed deadly a wayte for Jesus.' And Fuller lias 'lay at wait' {Hulij State, 31G), 'An adversary who lay at wait for all advantages.' 2. As verb we find 'wait' in the phrases 'wait for' and ' wait on ' or ' upon.'

(1) ' \\ ait for ' has three meanings : {a) Watch for, equivalent to ' lay wait for,' Job IS^ ' He is waited for of the sword ' (v^ji ^ITv *'"> ; LXX i2n-^Ta\Tai [A ^VT^raKTat] yd.p fi6-q th xf'pat ciSripov ; Vulg. ' circumspectans undinue gladium'; Cov. 'the swearde is alnvaye before his eyes ' ; Kautzsch, ' fur das Schwert ist er auser- sehen ') ; Ps 56" ' They mark my steps, when they wait for my soul' (vcj iip ^}'S3) ; cf. Ps "l" ' And they that fay wait for my soiil ' (vrj noe'i).

(6) Expect, the modern use. Lie 12* ' Like linto men that wait for their lord, when he will re- turn from the wedding ' (?rpo(roexoM^''0'S Tdv Kvpiov iavrCv, RV 'looking for'); Ac 10" 'Cornelius waited for them ' (?';;' vpo<TOoKwv aiVroi's, RV ' was waiting for them'); IT'" 'Now while Paul waited for them at Athens' [iKdexop^^vov avroui toO IlaiJ- \ov) ; 2 Th 3' ' the patient waiting for Christ ' (uTTOyuoi'^, RV as AVm 'patience'), (c) The most important use of this phrase is when it refer.'

s to the attitude towards God of the patient believer, who is confident that God will j'et show Himself to be the enemy of evildoers and the praise of them that do well ; it is then almost equivalent to beticpe in or worship. Thus 2 K 6** ' Behold, tliis evil is of the Lord ; what (KV 'why') should I wait for the Lord any longer? ' (niy nin:S S-nW-no, LXX tI inroneLvoi Ttf Kvpitfi (ti. ;) ; Ps 37' ' Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him ' ; 39' ' And now. Lord, what wait I for ?

my hope is in thee ' ; 65' ' Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion.' See also Driver, Par. Psnl. p. 465.

(2) ' Wait on ' or ' upon ' means : 'a) attend to, as Nu 3'" ' And thou shaft appoint Aaion and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office ' ; 8" ; 1 Ch 23'-* ' Their office was to wait on tho sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the I<ord ' ; 2Ch 13'" 'the Levi tea wait upon their business'; Mk 3' ' He spake unto his disciples that a small ship should wait on him ' {irpocrKaprep^ aiVcp) ; Ro 12'. So Adams, 2 Peter, 35, ' Life . .

which is obnoxious to sin, and waited on with misery.' In this sense ' wait at ' is used in 1 Co 9"* ' TLey which wait at the altar' (RV 'wait upon'). (6) The other use is the same as the special biblical sense of ' wait for,' viz. look/or, trust to, nearly worship, as Ps '25' ' Let none that wait on thee be ashamed ; 255. 21 27" 104-''. The simple verb is used twice of God's long- sufl'ering towards men.

Is 30" ' And therefore wul the Lord wait, that lie may be gracious unto you ' ; 1 P 3''" ' the long-suliering of God waited in the days of Noah.' J. HASriN'QS.