2001 Translation

ELPIDA, elpida

Sounds Like: el-PEE-dah

Translations: hope, a hope, expectation, an expectation

From the root: ἘΛΠΊΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the feeling of expectation and desire for something to happen, often with a sense of confidence or trust. It is used to describe both a general feeling of hope and the specific object of that hope. It can be used in sentences like 'We have hope for the future' or 'He placed his hope in God'.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1680 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:18

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 11:8

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:24, 2:40, 2:52, 9:3

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 20:327
• Book 2 — 9:235, 15:332, 16:336
• Book 3 — 1:10
• Book 4 — 6:149
• Book 5 — 1:38, 1:64, 3:176
• Book 6 — 2:23
• Book 7 — 7:158, 10:234
• Book 8 — 11:280
• Book 10 — 1:11
• Book 11 — 6:256
• Book 12 — 6:218
• Book 13 — 6:201, 15:399
• Book 14 — 3:51
• Book 15 — 3:79, 5:153, 6:166, 7:204, 8:269, 9:302
• Book 16 — 4:89, 8:238, 10:322, 11:382, 11:389
• Book 17 — 4:66, 5:115, 6:163, 6:172, 12:331
• Book 18 — 6:176, 8:267, 8:285
• Book 19 — 1:160, 3:233

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:4, 5:8, 7:4, 7:12, 10:10, 18:9, 21:5, 25:15, 30:14, 31:7
• Book Two — 4:6, 7:1, 9:16, 21:2
• Book Three — 7:52, 7:56, 10:39
• Book Four — 2:12, 5:23, 5:34, 10:8, 11:15, 11:28
• Book Five — 11:27
• Book Six — 2:68
• Book Seven — 2:8, 6:3, 8:74, 8:80, 8:118, 10:7, 11:13

Justin Martyr

• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:2
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 44:4, 110:3, 141:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 29:144, 63:325, 67:380

Pseudo Clement of Rome

• Clement’s Second Letter — 1:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 24:15
• 2 Maccabees — 9:20, 9:22
• 4 Maccabees — 11:7, 17:4
• Psalms — 72:28, 77:7
• Proverbs — 13:12, 26:12, 29:20
• Job — 2:9, 6:8, 19:10
• Wisdom — 3:18
• Sirach — 13:6
• Isaiah — 28:10, 28:15, 28:17, 31:2
• Jeremiah — 2:36, 17:5
• Ezekiel — 29:16
• Micah — 2:8

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 5 — 1:7

The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables

• Parable 6 — 2:4
• Parable 8 — 6:5
• Parable 9 — 14:3

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 1 — 1:9
• Vision 3 — 11:3

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 24:15
• Romans — 4:18, 5:4, 15:4
• 2 Corinthians — 3:12, 10:15
• Galatians — 5:5
• Ephesians — 2:12
• Philippians — 1:20
• Colossians — 1:5
• 1 Thessalonians — 4:13, 5:8
• 2 Thessalonians — 2:16
• Titus — 2:13, 3:7
• 1 Peter — 1:3, 1:21
• 1 John — 3:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΠΊΣ.

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.

• ἘΛΠΙΔΑΣ — hopes, expectations

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