G1679 – elpizo – ἐλπίζω – to hope, expect
- Strong’s ID:
- G1679
- Greek Word:
- ἐλπίζω
- Transliteration:
- elpizō / elpizo
- Pronunciation:
- el-pid’-zo
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Etymology:
- from G1680
- Usage Count:
- 31
- Search:
- Find “elpizo” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
to hope, expect
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1680; to expect or confide:—(have, thing) hope(-d) (for), trust.
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.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to hope
1a) in a religious sense, to wait for salvation with joy and full confidence
2) hopefully to trust in
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.