# קָוָה (qavah) Israeli respelling: qa-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H6960. 45 Old Testament occurrences. to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e. collect; (figuratively) to expect King James renderings: gather (together), look, patiently, tarry, wait (for, on, upon). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/qavah-h6960 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/9) — And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. - [Genesis 49:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/18) — I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD. - [Job 3:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/3/9) — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: - [Job 6:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/6/19) — The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them. - [Job 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/2) — As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: - [Job 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/13) — If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness. - [Job 30:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/26) — When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. - [Psalms 25:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/3) — Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. - [Psalms 25:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/5) — Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. - [Psalms 25:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/25/21) — Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee. - [Psalms 27:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/14) — Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. - [Psalms 37:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/9) — For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. - [Psalms 37:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/37/34) — Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. - [Psalms 39:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/7) — And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. - [Psalms 40:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/1) — I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. - [Psalms 52:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/52/9) — I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints. - [Psalms 56:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/6) — They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. - [Psalms 69:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/6) — Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God… - [Psalms 69:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/20) — Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but… - [Psalms 119:95](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/95) — The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies. - [Psalms 130:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/130/5) — I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. - [Proverbs 20:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/22) — Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee. - [Isaiah 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/2) — And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and als… - [Isaiah 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/4) — What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brou… - [Isaiah 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/5/7) — For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but beho… - [Isaiah 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/8/17) — And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. - [Isaiah 25:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/25/9) — And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for hi… - [Isaiah 26:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/26/8) — Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. - [Isaiah 33:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/2) — O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. - [Isaiah 40:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/40/31) — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; an… - [Isaiah 49:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/23) — And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,… - [Isaiah 51:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/5) — My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm s… - [Isaiah 59:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/9) — Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk i… - [Isaiah 59:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/11) — We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. - [Isaiah 60:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/9) — Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unt… - [Isaiah 64:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/3) — When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence. - [Jeremiah 3:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/3/17) — At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to J… - [Jeremiah 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/15) — We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! - [Jeremiah 13:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/16) — Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for lig… - [Jeremiah 14:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/19) — Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace,… - [Jeremiah 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/22) — Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? the… - [Lamentations 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/16) — All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this i… - [Lamentations 3:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/3/25) — The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. - [Hosea 12:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/6) — Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. - [Micah 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/7) — And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for…