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H7663 שָׂבַר hebrew

pronunciation: sâbar  ·  saw-bar'

definition: hope, tarry, view, wait.

to scrutinize; by implication (of watching) to expect (with hope and patience)

Occurrences · 8 verses · page 1 of 1

• Ruth 1:13

  Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

• Esther 9:1

  Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

• Psalms 104:27

  These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

• Psalms 119:166

  LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

• Psalms 145:15

  The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

• Isaiah 38:18

  For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.