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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

bid: A variant of "abide" (which see); is the rendering of perimeno, in The Wisdom of Solomon 8:12 (the Revised Version (British and American) "they shall wait for me"). In Ac 1:4 the same word is translated "wait for."