To wait for/welcome
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G4327 can describe receiving or welcoming a person and waiting expectantly for a promised event or good. Luke 15:2 records the complaint that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them, setting reception within his mission of seeking the lost.
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G4327 can describe receiving or welcoming a person and waiting expectantly for a promised event or good. Luke 15:2 records the complaint that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them, setting reception within his mission of seeking the lost.
The BSB source-word alignment has 14 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include waiting for (2), Welcome (2), [and] refused (1), accepted (1), as we await (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 15:43. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (5), Acts (2), Hebrews (2), Jude (1).
G4327 can describe receiving or welcoming a person and waiting expectantly for a promised event or good. Luke 15:2 records the complaint that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them, setting reception within his mission of seeking the lost. Romans 16:2 asks the church to receive Phoebe in a manner worthy of the saints and to assist her. Acts 24:15 speaks of hope in God while awaiting resurrection, and Titus 2:13 describes waiting for the blessed hope and appearing of Jesus Christ.
The word joins active hospitality and patient expectancy without making them identical. Welcome does not erase boundaries, truth, or accountability, and waiting for Christ does not excuse neglect of present neighbors. G4327 helps communities practice dignifying reception, concrete assistance, and resilient hope while avoiding favoritism, unsafe access, speculative timetables, and passive withdrawal from responsibility.
G4327 receives people into fellowship and awaits consolation, resurrection, the kingdom, mercy, or Christ's appearing. Its contexts combine open welcome, practical support, patient hope, and faithful readiness.
So the Pharisees and scribes began to grumble: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Religious critics complain that Jesus welcomes sinners and eats with them, introducing parables that display God's searching and restoring joy.
Welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her with anything she may need from you. For she has been a great help to many people, including me.
Paul asks the Roman believers to receive Phoebe worthily and provide whatever help she needs, joining welcome to concrete assistance and honor.
And I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Paul shares a hope in God that awaits the resurrection of both righteous and wicked, locating expectancy within accountable public testimony.
As we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Believers await the blessed hope and appearing of Christ while the chapter calls them to godly lives in the present age.
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Greek word. Combines receiving favorably and expectant waiting; to welcome what one anticipates.
Combines receiving favorably and expectant waiting; to welcome what one anticipates.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
14 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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How this verb appears across 13 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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G4327 holds open arms and lifted eyes together. Jesus' welcome of sinners displays God's initiative toward the lost, but the surrounding parables move toward repentance, restoration, and joy rather than denial of sin. Romans 16 makes welcome practical: Phoebe is to be honored and assisted, not merely greeted. That text challenges churches to recognize women's service, offer material help, and receive trusted workers without reducing them to stereotypes.
The expectancy uses look toward resurrection, the kingdom, mercy, and Christ's appearing. Such hope is neither escapism nor a timetable. Paul testifies publicly while awaiting resurrection, and Titus joins future hope to self-controlled, upright, and godly life in the present. Churches can therefore welcome newcomers and displaced people with dignity while keeping safeguarding, role clarity, consent, and accountable boundaries.
They can wait for Christ without abandoning work, creation care, justice, grief, or medical treatment. G4327 forms communities that make room, provide help, endure delay, and orient their hope toward God's promised future.
Rom.16.2
G4327 is a Greek verb that can mean receive or welcome and, with an awaited object, expect or wait for. The direct object and narrative setting distinguish hospitality toward a person from hope directed toward a future event.
Israel's Scriptures command welcome for strangers and sustain hope for God's consolation and renewal. The New Testament uses G4327 for receiving people and awaiting resurrection, mercy, the kingdom, and Christ, joining hospitality to persevering future hope.