ἐλπίς (sometimes written
ἐλπίς; so
WH in
Romans 8:20;
Tdf. in
Acts 2:26; see (in 2 below, and) the references under the word
ἀφειδον),
ἐλπίδος,
ἡ (
ἔλπω to make to hope), the
Sept. for
בֶּטַח and
מִבְטַח, trust;
מַחְסֶה that in which one confides or to which he flees for refuge;
תִּקְוָה expectation, hope; in the classics a vox media, i. e.
expectation whether of good or of ill;
1. rarely in a bad sense,
expectation of evil, fear; as,
ἡ τῶν κακῶν ἐλπίς,
Lucian, Tyrannic c. 3;
τοῦ φοβοῦ ἐλπίς,
Thucydides 7, 61;
κακῇ ἐλπίς,
Plato, rep. 1, p. 330 e. (cf. legg. 1, p. 644 c. at the end);
πονηρά ἐλπίς Isaiah 28:19, the
Sept.
2. much more frequent in the classics, and always in the N. T., in a good sense:
expectation of good, hope; and in the Christian sense,
joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation:
Acts 23:6;
Acts 26:7;
Romans 5:4;
Romans 12:12;
Romans 15:13;
1 Corinthians 13:13;
1 Peter 1:3;
1 Peter 3:15;
ἀγαθή ἐλπίς (often in secular authors, as
Plato, Phaedo 67 c.; plural
ἐλπίδες ἀγαθαί, legg. 1, p. 649 b.;
Xenophon, Ages. 1, 27),
2 Thessalonians 2:16;
ἐλπίς βλεπομένη, hope whose object is seen,
Romans 8:24;
ὁ Θεός τῆς ἐλπίδος, God, the author of hope,
Romans 15:13;
ἡ πληροθορια τῆς ἐλπίδος, fullness, i. e. certainty and strength of hope,
Hebrews 6:11;
ἡ ὁμολογία τῆς ἐλπίδος, the confession of those things which we hope for,
Hebrews 10:23;
τό καύχημα τῆς ἐλπίδος hope wherein we glory,
Hebrews 3:6;
ἐπεισαγωγή κρείττονος ἐλπίδος, the bringing in of a better hope,
Hebrews 7:19;
ἐλπίς with the genitive of the subjunctive,
Acts 28:20;
2 Corinthians 1:7 (6);
Philippians 1:20; with the genitive of the object,
Acts 27:20;
Romans 5:2;
1 Corinthians 9:10;
1 Thessalonians 5:8;
Titus 3:7; with the genitive of the thing on which the hope depends,
ἡ ἐλπίς τῆς ἐργασίας αὐτῶν,
Acts 16:19;
τῆς κλήσεως,
Ephesians 1:18;
Ephesians 4:4;
τοῦ εὐαγγελίου,
Colossians 1:23; with the genitive of the person in whom hope is reposed,
1 Thessalonians 1:3 (cf.
Buttmann, 155 (136)).
ἐπ' (or
ἐφ' — so
Acts 2:26 L T;
Romans 4:18 L;
Rom 8:20 (
Rom 8:21)
T WH; cf.
Scrivener, Introduction, etc., p. 565; (but see above, at the beginning))
ἐλπίδι, relying
on hope, having hope, in hope (
Euripides, Herc. fur. 804;
Diodorus Siculus 13, 21;
ἐπ' ἐλπίδι ἀγαθή,
Xenophon, mem. 2, 1, 187 (
Winers Grammar, 394 (368), cf. 425 (396);
Buttmann, 337 (290)):
Acts 2:26 (of a return to life);
Romans 4:18; with the genitive of the thing hoped for added:
ζωῆς αἰωνίου,
Titus 1:2;
τοῦ μετέχειν,
1 Corinthians 9:10 (
G L T Tr WH);
in hope, followed by
ὅτι,
Romans 8:20 (21) (but
Tdf. reads
διότι);
on account of the hope, for the hope (
Buttmann, 165 (144)), with the genitive of the thing on which the hope rests,
Acts 26:6.
παῥ ἐλπίδα,
beyond, against, hope (
Winer's Grammar, 404 (377)):
Romans 4:18 (i. e. where the laws of nature left no room for hope).
ἔχειν ἐλπίδα (often in Greek writings):
Romans 15:4;
2 Corinthians 3:12; with an infinitive belonging to the person hoping,
2 Corinthians 10:15;
ἐλπίδα ἔχειν εἰς (
Tdf. πρός)
Θεόν, followed by an accusative with an infinitive
Acts 24:15 (
εἰς Χριστόν ἔχειν,
τάς ἐλπίδας, Acta Thomae § 28; (
τήν ἐλπίδα εἰς τόν Ἰησοῦν ἐν τῷ πνεύματι ἔχοντες, the Epistle of Barnabas 11, 11 [ET]));
ἐπί with the dative of person
1 John 3:3;
ἐλπίδα μή ἔχοντες (of the heathen) having no hope (of salvation),
Ephesians 2:12;
1 Thessalonians 4:13;
ἤ ἐλπίς ἐστιν εἰς Θεόν, directed unto God,
1 Peter 1:21. By metonymy, it denotes
a. the author of hope, or he who is its foundation, (often so in Greek authors, as
Aeschylus choëph. 776;
Thucydides 3, 57; (cf.
Ignatius ad Eph. 21, 2 [ET]; ad Magn. 11 [ET] at the end; ad Philad. 11, 2 [ET]; ad Trall. inscr. and 2, 2 [ET], etc.)):
1 Timothy 1:1;
1 Thessalonians 2:19; with the genitive of object added,
τῆς δόξης,
Colossians 1:27.
b. the thing hoped for:
προσδέχεσθαι τήν μακαρίαν ἐλπίδα,
Titus 2:13;
ἐλπίδα δικαιοσύνης ἀπεκδέχεσθαι, the thing hoped for, which is righteousness (cf. Meyer edition Sieffert at the passage),
Galatians 5:5 (
προσδοκῶν τάς ὑπό Θεοῦ ἐλπίδας, 2 Macc. 7:14);
διά ἐλπίδα τήν ἀποκειμένην ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς,
Colossians 1:5;
κρατῆσαι τῆς προκειμένης ἐλπίδος,
Hebrews 6:18 (cf. Bleek at the passage). — Zöckler, De vi ac notlone vocis
ἐλπίς in N. T. Gissae 1856.
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