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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1"/><title>Strong's Greek: 603. ἀποκαραδοκία (apokaradokia) -- Eager expectation, earnest longing</title></title><link rel="canonical" href="http://biblehub.com/greek/603.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/strongsnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/interlinear/vmenus/revelation/10-9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmstrongs/greek/603.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's</a> > <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Greek</a> > 603</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../greek/602.htm" title="602">◄</a> 603. apokaradokia <a href="../greek/604.htm" title="604">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">apokaradokia: Eager expectation, earnest longing</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">ἀποκαραδοκία</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Feminine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>apokaradokia<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>a-po-ka-ra-do-KEE-ah<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(ap-ok-ar-ad-ok-ee'-ah)<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Eager expectation, earnest longing<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>eager expectation.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>From a compound of ἀπό (apo, meaning "away from") and a derivative of κεφαλή (karadokia, meaning "head" or "watching")<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>While there is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "apokaradokia," the concept of eager expectation can be related to Hebrew words like קָוָה (qavah, Strong's H6960), which means to wait or hope for.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "apokaradokia" conveys a sense of intense anticipation or earnest expectation. It is used to describe a focused and hopeful waiting, often with an element of suspense or longing for a future event. This word captures the idea of straining forward with an outstretched head, as if looking eagerly for something to come.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the Greco-Roman world, the concept of eager expectation was often associated with the anticipation of significant events, such as the arrival of a dignitary or the fulfillment of a promise. In the context of the early Christian church, this term would have resonated with believers who were living in anticipation of Christ's return and the fulfillment of God's promises.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>603</b> <i>apokaradokía</i> ("from <a href="/greek/575.htm">575</a> <i>/apó</i>, "away from"; <i>kara</i>, "the head"; and <a href="/greek/1380.htm">1380</a> <i>/dokéō</i>, "thinking") – properly, thinking forward (literally with head <i>out-stretched</i>), referring to <i>eager</i>, <i>intense expectation</i>.</p><p class="discovery"><a href="/greek/603.htm">603</a> <i>/apokaradokía</i> ("attentive expectation") is used twice (Ro 8:19; Phil 1:20). Ro 8:19 applies this term directly to each believer receiving a <i>unique, glorified body</i> at Christ's return (see also 1 Cor 15:35-54; 2 Cor 5:1-10; Phil 3:11-21). This intense expectation fosters <i>earnest longing</i> to see Jesus – portrayed as an Olympic runner straining forward to the end-goal with "<i>head outstretched</i>" (Ro 8:19)! This automatically also means turning <i>away from</i> what is <i>lesser</i>, to lay hold of the <i>greater</i>.</p><p class="discovery">[The prefix, "<a href="/greek/575.htm">575</a> <i>/apó</i> ('from'), implies <i>abstraction</i>, the attention <i>turned from</i> other objects" (<i>WS</i>, 709), suggesting "abstraction and absorption" (Lightfoot). "This abstraction – <i>from anything else</i> that might engage the attention – is also absorpted in the expected object "till the fulfillment is realized" (H. Alford).]</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from a comp. of <a href="/greek/575.htm">apo</a>, kara (the head) and <a href="/greek/1380.htm">dokeó</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>strained expectancy<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>anxious longing (1), earnest expectation (1).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 603: ἀποκαραδοκία</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ἀποκαραδοκία</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἀποκαραδοκιας</span>, <span class="greek2">ἡ</span> (from <span class="greek2">ἀποκαραδόκειν</span>, and this from <span class="greek2">ἀπό</span>, <span class="greek2">κάρα</span>, the head, and <span class="greek2">δοκεῖν</span> in the Ionic dialect, to watch; hence, <span class="greek2">καραδόκειν</span> (<span class="abbreviation">Herodotus</span> 7. 163, 168; <span class="abbreviation">Xenophon</span>, mem. 3, 5, 6; <span class="abbreviation">Euripides</span>, others) to watch with head erect or outstretched, to direct attention to anything, to wait for in suspense; <span class="greek2">ἀποκαραδόκειν</span> (<span class="abbreviation">Polybius</span> 16, 2, 8; 18, 31, 4; 22, 19, 3; (<span class="abbreviation">Plutarch</span>, parall., p. 310, 43, vol. vii., p. 235, Reiske edition); <span class="abbreviation">Josephus</span>, <span class="abbreviation">b. j.</span> 3, 7, 26, and in <a href="/interlinear/psalms/36-7.htm">Psalm 36:7</a><FOOTNOTE:10> (<BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Ps. 37:7>) <span class="manuref">Aq.</span> for <span class="hebrew">הִתהולֵל</span>), anxiously (?) to look forth from one's post. But the prefix <span class="greek2">ἀπό</span> refers also to time (like the German <span class="foreign">ab</span> in<span class="latin">abwarten</span> (cf. English wait it out)), so that it signifies constancy in expecting; hence, the noun, found in Paul alone and but twice, denotes), <span class="accented">anxious (?) and persistent expectation</span>: <a href="/interlinear/romans/8-19.htm">Romans 8:19</a>; <a href="/interlinear/philippians/1-20.htm">Philippians 1:20</a>. This word is very fully discussed by C. F. A. Fritzsche in Fritzschiorum Opuscc., p. 150ff; (cf. Ellicott and <span class="abbreviation">Lightfoot</span> on Philippians, the passage cited).<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>earnest expectation. <p>From a comparative of <a href="/greek/575.htm">apo</a> and a compound of kara (the head) and <a href="/greek/1380.htm">dokeo</a> (in the sense of watching); intense anticipation -- earnest expectation. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/575.htm">apo</a> <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/1380.htm">dokeo</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>αποκαραδοκια αποκαραδοκία ἀποκαραδοκία αποκαραδοκιαν αποκαραδοκίαν ἀποκαραδοκίαν apokaradokia apokaradokía apokaradokian apokaradokían<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/romans/8-19.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Romans 8:19</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular">N-NFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/romans/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἡ γὰρ <b>ἀποκαραδοκία</b> τῆς κτίσεως</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/romans/8.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> <span class="itali">For the anxious longing</span> of the creation<br><a href="/kjvs/romans/8.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> For <span class="itali">the earnest expectation</span> of the creature<br><a href="/interlinear/romans/8-19.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> the indeed <span class="itali">earnest expectation</span> of the creation<p><b><a href="/text/philippians/1-20.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Philippians 1:20</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular">N-AFS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/philippians/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">κατὰ τὴν <b>ἀποκαραδοκίαν</b> καὶ ἐλπίδα</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/philippians/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> according <span class="itali">to my earnest expectation</span> and hope,<br><a href="/kjvs/philippians/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> to my <span class="itali">earnest expectation</span> and<br><a href="/interlinear/philippians/1-20.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> according to the <span class="itali">earnest expectation</span> and hope<p><b><a href="/greek/603.htm">Strong's Greek 603</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_603.htm">2 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/apokaradokia_603.htm">ἀποκαραδοκία — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/apokaradokian_603.htm">ἀποκαραδοκίαν — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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