ἘΛΠΙΣΟΝ, ἐλπισον
ELPISON, elpison
Sounds Like: el-PI-son
Translations: Hope!, Trust!, Expect!
From the root: ἘΛΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an imperative verb meaning 'to hope,' 'to trust,' or 'to expect.' It commands someone to place their hope or confidence in something or someone. It is often used with prepositions like 'ἐπί' (upon) or 'εἰς' (into) followed by a noun or pronoun indicating the object of hope or trust.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G1679 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
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.
- ἘΛΠΙΖΕΙΝ — to hope, to expect, to trust
- 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
- 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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