ἈΝΕΛΠΙΣΤΟΝ, ἀνελπιστον
ANELPISTON, anelpiston
Sounds Like: an-EL-pis-ton
Translations: unhoped for, unexpected, without hope, a thing unhoped for, an unexpected thing
From the root: ΕΛΠΙΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something that is not hoped for, or that occurs contrary to expectation. It signifies something unexpected or unforeseen. It is often used to describe events or outcomes that surprise people because they were not anticipated.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G0424 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 19 — 2:167
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Seven — 4:28
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Isaiah — 18:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΛΠΙΣ.
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.
- ἈΝΕΛΠΙΣΤΩΣ — unexpectedly, without hope, beyond expectation
- ΑΛΠΙΔΟΣ — (of) hope, (of) expectation, (of) trust
- ΔΕἘΛΠΙΣ — hope, a hope, expectation, confidence
- ἘΛΠΙΔΑΤΟΙΣ — (to) hope, (to) a hope, (to) expectation, (to) trust
- ἘΛΠΙΔΕ — hopes
- ἘΛΠΙΔΕΣ — hopes, expectations
- ἘΛΠΙΔΙ — (to) hope, (in) hope, (with) hope, (to) expectation, (in) expectation, (with) expectation
- ἘΛΠΙΔΩΝ — of hope, of expectation, of trust
- ἘΛΠΙΣΙΝ — to hope, with hope, in hope, by hope, with expectations
- ἘΞἘΛΠΙΔΟΣ — from Elpis, out of Elpis
- ΕΛΠΙΔ — hope, expectation, a hope, an expectation
- ΕΛΠΙΔΑΝ — hope, a hope, expectation, confidence
- ΕΛΠΙΔΑΣ — of hope, a hope, hope
- ΕΛΠΙΔΕΙ — hope, a hope, expectation, confidence
- ΕΛΠΙΔΕΣ — hopes, a hope
- ΕΛΠΙΔΙ — to hope, to expectation, to trust, to confidence, to a hope, to an expectation, to a trust, to a confidence
- ΕΛΠΙΔΟΣ — (of) hope, (of) expectation, (of) trust
- ΕΛΠΙΔΩΝ — of hopes, of expectations, of trusts
- ΕΛΠΙΣ — hope, a hope, expectation, confidence
- ΤΑΙΣἘΛΠΙΣΙΝ — to the hopes, for the hopes, to the expectations, for the expectations
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