ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΑΝ, ἀπηλπισαν
APĒLPISAN, apēlpisan
Sounds Like: ap-ayl-PI-san
Translations: they despaired, they gave up hope, they expected nothing in return
From the root: ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἀπό (apo), meaning 'from' or 'away from', and the verb ἐλπίζω (elpizo), meaning 'to hope' or 'to expect'. Together, it means to give up hope, to despair, or to expect nothing in return. It is used to describe a state where individuals have lost all expectation or hope.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G0630 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 7:9
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΩ.
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.
- ἈΠΕΛΠΙΖΟΝΤΕΣ — despairing, giving up hope, expecting nothing in return, expecting no return
- ἈΠΕΛΠΙΣΑΣ — despairing, having despaired, giving up hope, having given up hope
- ἈΠΕΛΠΙΣΘΗΝΑΙ — to despair, to give up hope, to be despaired of, to be given up for lost
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΖΟΝ — they were despairing, they had despaired, they were giving up hope
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΚΟΤΕΣ — having despaired, having given up hope, having lost hope
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΜΕΝΟΙ — despairing, hopeless, those who have despaired, the hopeless
- ἈΠΗΛΠΙΣΜΕΝΩΝ — despairing, of those who despair, of those who have despaired, of those who have given up hope
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