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:
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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:
1 Peter 1:3: "hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus"
1 Peter 1:21: "that your faith and hope might be in God."
1 Peter 3:15: "you a reason of the hope that is in you with"
1 John 3:3: "every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,"
