Strong's #1680: elpis (pronounced el-pece')
from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence:--faith, hope.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
̓́
elpis
1) expectation of evil, fear
2) expectation of good, hope
2a) in the Christian sense
2a1) joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation
3) on hope, in hope, having hope
3a) the author of hope, or he who is its foundation
3b) the thing hoped for
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure)
Citing in TDNT: 2:517, 229
Usage:
This word is used 54 times:
Acts 2:26: "also my flesh shall rest in hope:"
Acts 16:19: "saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught"
Acts 23:6: "the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I"
Acts 24:15: "And have hope toward God, which they themselves also"
Acts 26:6: "I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of"
Acts 26:7: "hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused"
Acts 27:20: "tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away."
Acts 28:20: "you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
Romans 4:18: "Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become"
Romans 4:18: "hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many"
Romans 5:2: "we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Romans 5:4: "experience; and experience, hope:"
Romans 5:5: "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God"
Romans 8:20: "by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,"
Romans 8:24: "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not"
Romans 8:24: "we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope:"
Romans 8:24: "that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth,"
Romans 12:12: "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;"
Romans 15:4: "of the Scriptures might have hope."
Romans 15:13: "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy"
Romans 15:13: "that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
1 Corinthians 9:10: "that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth"
1 Corinthians 9:10: "in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his"
1 Corinthians 9:10: "that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope."
1 Corinthians 13:13: "now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but"
2 Corinthians 1:7: "And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that"
2 Corinthians 3:12: "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:"
2 Corinthians 10:15: "labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged"
Galatians 5:5: "we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith."
Ephesians 1:18: "what is the hope of his calling, and what"
Ephesians 2:12: "of promise, having no hope, and without God in the"
Ephesians 4:4: "ye are called in one hope of your calling;"
Philippians 1:20: "to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed,"
Colossians 1:5: "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof"
Colossians 1:23: "moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard,"
Colossians 1:27: "in you, the hope of glory:"
1 Thessalonians 1:3: "of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ,"
1 Thessalonians 2:19: "For what is our hope, or joy, or crown"
1 Thessalonians 4:13: "others which have no hope."
1 Thessalonians 5:8: "love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation."
2 Thessalonians 2:16: "consolation and good hope through grace,"
1 Timothy 1:1: "Jesus Christ, which is our hope;"
Titus 1:2: "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised"
Titus 2:13: "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the"
Titus 3:7: "we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
Hebrews 3:6: "and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."
Hebrews 6:11: "to the full assurance of hope unto the end:"
Hebrews 6:18: "consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before"
Hebrews 7:19: "made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh"
Hebrews 10:23: "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)"
