Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong's Definition
intense anticipation
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
earnest expectation, eager hope, Rom. 8:19; Phil. 1:20*
Translated in KJV as
earnest expectation
Etymology
from a comparative of G575 (ἀπό) and a compound of (the head) and G1380 (δοκέω) (in the sense of watching);
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