ἘΛΠΙΔΟΣ, ἐλπιδος
ELPIDOS, elpidos
Sounds Like: el-PEE-dos
Translations: of hope, of a hope
From the root: ἘΛΠΙΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the genitive singular form of the noun 'hope'. It refers to an expectation, a confident anticipation, or a trust in something. As a genitive case, it often indicates possession, origin, or the object of an action, hence 'of hope' or 'belonging to hope'. It is commonly used to express the concept of having or lacking hope.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1680 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Ephesians — 1:2
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 5:2
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 0:1
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Magnesians — 9:1, 11:1
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 24:222
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:90
- Book 2 — 4:43, 6:119, 9:211
- Book 3 — 2:51
- Book 4 — 5:97
- Book 6 — 4:51
- Book 7 — 1:32
- Book 8 — 1:8, 8:214, 11:274
- Book 10 — 2:28, 6:88
- Book 11 — 6:247, 6:296
- Book 12 — 6:164, 9:355
- Book 13 — 7:98, 12:331, 13:351
- Book 14 — 6:96
- Book 15 — 5:143, 5:150, 11:388
- Book 16 — 3:81
- Book 18 — 6:227, 8:277
- Book 19 — 1:133, 1:136, 1:149, 2:189, 3:222
- Book 20 — 3:59, 4:86
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 6:2, 7:17, 19:11, 24:6
- Book Two — 2:18
- Book Three — 4:3, 6:3
- Book Five — 5:4
- Book Six — 1:16, 5:17
- Book Seven — 4:15, 6:39
Justin Martyr
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 3:3
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Maccabees — 3:29, 15:7
- Psalms — 59:10, 93:22, 107:10
- Sirach — 14:2, 49:10
- Isaiah — 28:4, 28:5, 32:10
- Jeremiah — 31:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 23:6, 26:7, 28:20
- Romans — 15:13
- Colossians — 1:23
- 1 Thessalonians — 1:3
- 1 Timothy — 1:1
- Hebrews — 3:6, 6:11, 6:18, 7:19, 10:23
- 1 Peter — 3:15
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
- ἘΛΠΙΔΩΝΤΗΝ — of hopes, the, the hopes
- ἘΛΠΙΣ — hope, a hope, expectation, a trust, a confidence
- ἘΛΠΙΣΙ — to hopes, in hopes, with hopes, hope
- ΤΑΣἘΛΠΙΔΑΣ — the hopes
- ΤΗΣἘΛΠΙΔΟΣ — (of) the hope, (of) a hope
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