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GreekG1680Noun (Feminine)

ἐλπίς

elpis

47Occurrences
G1680Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence

from a primary (to anticipate, usually with pleasure);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
-ίδος, ἡ expectation (in cl., rarely of evil, mostly of good, and so always in NT), hope
1.of hope in general
2.Of religious hope
(a)of the author or ground of hope
(b)of the thing hoped for
LXX: for בָּטַח and its derivatives, תִּקְוָה (frequently in Jb), etc.

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

G:N-F

Full Description

Greek Noun, Feminine

Occurrences

ἐλπίς appears 47 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

Romans
9
Acts
8
Hebrews
5
1 Thessalonians
4
1 Peter
3
Colossians
3
Ephesians
3
Titus
3

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 13:13BSB

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Thessalonians 5:8BSB

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

Acts 26:6BSB

And now I stand on trial because of my hope in the promise that God made to our fathers,

Ephesians 4:4BSB

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;

Romans 15:4BSB

For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.