ἘΛΠΙΖΕΙΝ, ἐλπιζειν
ELPIZEIN, elpizein
Sounds Like: el-pi-ZEIN
Translations: to hope, to expect, to trust
From the root: ἘΛΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning to place one's hope, trust, or confidence in someone or something, or to expect something to happen. It often implies a confident expectation, especially in divine promises or future events. It can be used with a preposition like 'ἐπί' (epi) followed by a dative or accusative case to indicate the object of hope or trust.
Inflection: Infinitive, Present, Active
Strong’s number: G1679 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 59:3
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 5:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΠΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἘΛΠΙΖΕΤΕ — you hope, you expect, you trust
- ἘΛΠΙΖΟΝΤΑ — hoping, expecting, trusting, a hoping one, an expecting one, a trusting one
- ἘΛΠΙΖΟΥΣΗΣ — hoping, expecting, trusting, (of) one who hopes, (of) one who expects, (of) one who trusts
- ἘΛΠΙΖΩ — hope, expect, trust, believe
- ἘΛΠΙΟΥΜΕΝ — we hope, we expect
- ἘΛΠΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they will hope, they will expect, they will trust
- ἘΛΠΙΣΘΕΙΣΑΝ — hoped for, having been hoped for, a hoped for, an having been hoped for
- ἘΛΠΙΣΟΝ — Hope!, Trust!, Expect!
- ἨΛΠΙΖΟΜΕΝ — we hoped, we were hoping, we had hoped
- ἨΛΠΙΚΑΤΕ — you have hoped, you have trusted, you have expected
- ἨΛΠΙΣΑΝ — they hoped, they expected, they trusted
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