ΑΦΗΛΠΙΣΕΝ, αφηλπισεν
APHĒLPISEN, aphēlpisen
Sounds Like: ah-fel-PI-sen
Translations: despaired, gave up hope, lost hope
From the root: ΑΦΕΛΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the aorist active indicative third person singular form of the verb 'αφελπίζω' (aphelpizo). It means to despair, to give up hope, or to lose hope entirely. It describes an action of abandoning all expectation or confidence.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, Third Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G0560 (Lookup on BibleHub)
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From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΦΕΛΠΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἈΦΕΛΠΙΣΗΣ — you might despair, you might give up hope
- ἈΦΗΛΠΙΚΩΣ — despairing, having despaired, hopeless, having given up hope
- ἈΦΗΛΠΙΣΕΝ — despaired, gave up hope, lost hope
- ΑΦΕΛΠΙΣΗΣ — you should despair, you might despair, you should give up hope, you might give up hope
- ΑΦΗΛΠΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ — of despairing, of those who despair, of giving up hope
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