ἘΛΠΙΣ, ἐλπις
ELPIS, elpis
Sounds Like: EL-peess
Translations: hope, a hope, expectation, a trust, a confidence
From the root: ἘΛΠΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a confident expectation, a trust, or a belief in a positive future outcome. It can describe both the act of hoping and the object of that hope. It is often used in a theological context to refer to the Christian hope in God's promises.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 98:14
Barnabus
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 58:2
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Smyrnaeans — 10:2
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 10:1
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 7:1
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 6:140, 9:236
- Book 5 — 1:40, 6:222
- Book 6 — 2:24
- Book 9 — 3:40
- Book 13 — 12:328
- Book 15 — 5:125
- Book 16 — 4:123, 5:153
- Book 17 — 1:1, 1:7, 1:21, 4:75
- Book 18 — 8:286
- Book 19 — 1:138
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 16:8, 32:16, 33:12
- Book Three — 7:63, 7:73
- Book Four — 5:8, 6:28
- Book Five — 2:18, 2:20, 7:16, 13:35
- Book Six — 4:45
- Book Seven — 7:24, 8:129
Justin Martyr
Pseudo Clement of Rome
- Clement’s Second Letter — 17:7
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Chronicles — 35:26
- Judith — 13:19
- Psalms — 13:6, 21:10, 39:5, 60:4, 61:8, 64:6, 70:5, 90:9, 141:6, 145:5
- Psalms of Solomon — 5:13, 5:16, 8:37, 15:2, 17:2, 17:38, 17:44
- Proverbs — 10:28, 11:7, 11:23, 14:26, 22:19, 23:18, 24:14
- Ecclesiastes — 9:4
- Job — 4:6, 5:16, 8:13, 11:18, 11:20, 14:7, 17:15, 27:8, 30:15
- Wisdom — 3:4, 3:11, 5:14, 14:6, 15:10, 16:29
- Sirach — 31:15, 31:16
- Isaiah — 24:16, 28:13, 28:18, 28:19, 30:32
- Jeremiah — 17:7
- Lamentations — 3:18
- Ezekiel — 37:11
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 16:19, 27:20
- Romans — 5:5, 8:24
- 1 Corinthians — 13:13
- 2 Corinthians — 1:6
- Ephesians — 1:18
- Colossians — 1:27
- 1 Thessalonians — 2:19
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΛΠΙΣ.
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.
- ἘΛΠΙΔΑΤΟΥ — of hope, hope, a hope
- ἘΛΠΙΔΟΣ — of hope, of a hope
- ἘΛΠΙΔΩΝΤΗΝ — of hopes, the, the hopes
- ἘΛΠΙΣΙ — to hopes, in hopes, with hopes, hope
- ΤΑΣἘΛΠΙΔΑΣ — the hopes
- ΤΗΣἘΛΠΙΔΟΣ — (of) the hope, (of) a hope
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