ἘΛΠΙΔΑΣ, ἐλπιδας
ELPIDAS, elpidas
Sounds Like: EL-pi-DAS
Translations: hopes, expectations
From the root: ἘΛΠΊΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a noun meaning 'hope' or 'expectation'. It refers to a confident anticipation or a positive outlook towards the future. In this form, it is the plural accusative case, indicating that it is the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions, referring to multiple hopes or expectations.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 98:12
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:61
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 13:236, 20:325
- Book 2 — 4:57, 7:193, 14:306
- Book 3 — 5:83
- Book 4 — 1:8
- Book 5 — 11:359
- Book 6 — 11:215, 13:275
- Book 7 — 8:179, 8:183, 9:198
- Book 8 — 11:282
- Book 9 — 7:150
- Book 10 — 10:201
- Book 12 — 7:300, 7:325
- Book 13 — 1:30, 7:92, 16:412, 16:421
- Book 14 — 9:184, 14:380, 15:398
- Book 15 — 3:67, 5:129, 5:140, 5:150, 6:166, 6:170, 6:181, 6:196, 7:209, 7:232, 7:261
- Book 16 — 3:76
- Book 17 — 10:269
- Book 18 — 6:205, 6:239
- Book 20 — 3:72
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 10:2, 11:21, 21:6, 24:17, 25:24, 29:4, 30:1, 33:6
- Book Two — 21:3
- Book Four — 1:50, 2:20, 7:44
- Book Six — 1:13, 1:20, 1:57
- Book Seven — 4:14
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, ἘΛΠΊΣ.
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.
- ἘΛΠΙΔΑ — hope, a hope, expectation, an expectation
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