ἈΠΕΛΠΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ, ἀπελπισθηναι
APELPISTHĒNAI, apelpisthēnai
Sounds Like: ah-pel-pis-THEE-nai
Translations: to despair, to give up hope, to be despaired of, to be given up for lost
From the root: ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an infinitive form of the verb 'to despair' or 'to give up hope'. It describes the act of losing all hope or being in a state where hope is abandoned. It can be used to indicate that someone has despaired or that something has been despaired of.
Inflection: Aorist, Passive, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G0560 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 24:18
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ — despairing, giving up hope, expecting nothing in return, expecting no return
- ἈΠΕΛΠΙΣΑΣ — despairing, having despaired, giving up hope, having given up hope
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΖΟΝ — they were despairing, they had despaired, they were giving up hope
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΚΟΤΕΣ — having despaired, having given up hope, having lost hope
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΑΝ — they despaired, they gave up hope, they expected nothing in return
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΜΕΝΟΙ — despairing, hopeless, those who have despaired, the hopeless
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ — despairing, of those who despair, of those who have despaired, of those who have given up hope
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