qa.vah describes sustained waiting directed toward the LORD, deliverance, justice, light, or an anticipated outcome.

The verb marks directed waiting for a desired person, event, or result: people wait for the LORD and his salvation, while other clauses speak of awaiting justice, light, wages, grapes, or even an enemy’s destruction. The same use can stand in pleas, descriptions of disappointment, exhortations, and statements about those characterized by such waiting.

1. Directed waiting for a person or expected outcome · dominant

   The verb expresses waiting oriented toward a specified object or result. In Psalm 130:5 the APB renders repeated first-person perfect forms, "I waited for the LORD; my soul waited, and for his word I waited"; Isaiah 59:9 places the first-person plural imperfect with waiting for light amid darkness, and Isaiah 5:2 places a third-person sequential imperfect with the vineyard owner’s expectation of grapes. Qal active participles identify people by this posture in Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 37:9, where the APB renders those who wait for the LORD.

   Psalm 130:5Isaiah 59:9Isaiah 5:2Isaiah 40:31Psalm 37:9Job 7:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly uses "wait" or "await," and also uses "hope" and "look for" in some clauses. These variations describe the verse renderings rather than separate meanings of the Hebrew form.