elpis - 1680 - New Testament Greek - Lexicons

Lexicon Entry for "1680" in TGD, SGL

Number:	1680 (Find in Bible)
Word:	ελπις
Transliterated:	elpis
Pronunciation:	el-pece'
Part of Speech:	noun feminine
Short Definition:	faith, hope
Usage count:	54

Thayer's Greek Definitions

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

Thayers Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayers Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.

Strong's Greek Lexicon

from a primary ελπω elpo (to anticipate, ususally with pleasure); expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence:-faith, hope.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203-3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

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