ἐλπίς
hope
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 18 times (34%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 13 times (25%)
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 12 times (23%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 10 times (19%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 53 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1680 appears — 48 distinct verses across 15 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 2:26 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope;
- Acts 16:19 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.
- Acts 23:6 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
- Acts 24:15 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
- Acts 26:6 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,
- Acts 26:7 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!
- Acts 27:20 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small tempest pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
- Acts 28:20 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."
Romans 9 verses
- Romans 4:18 ἐλπίδα ἐλπίδι n acc sg fem n dat sg fem Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, "So will your seed be."
- Romans 5:2 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Romans 5:4 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope:
- Romans 5:5 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem and hope doesn't disappoint us, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
- Romans 8:20 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
- Romans 8:24 ἐλπίδι ἐλπὶς ἐλπίς n dat sg fem n nom sg fem n nom sg fem For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
- Romans 12:12 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
- Romans 15:4 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
- Romans 15:13 ἐλπίδος ἐλπίδι n gen sg fem n dat sg fem Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 9:10 ἐλπίδι ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem n dat sg fem or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 ἐλπίς n nom sg fem But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.
2 Corinthians 3 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:6 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
- 2 Corinthians 3:12 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,
- 2 Corinthians 10:15 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 3 verses
- Ephesians 1:18 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- Ephesians 2:12 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Ephesians 4:4 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;
Philippians 1 verse
Colossians 3 verses
- Colossians 1:5 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel,
- Colossians 1:23 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
- Colossians 1:27 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
1 Thessalonians 4 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:19 ἐλπὶς n nom sg fem For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn't it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Titus 3 verses
- Titus 1:2 ἐλπίδι n dat sg fem in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before eternal times;
- Titus 2:13 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
- Titus 3:7 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 5 verses
- Hebrews 3:6 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
- Hebrews 6:11 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,
- Hebrews 6:18 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
- Hebrews 7:19 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in thereupon of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
- Hebrews 10:23 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.
1 Peter 3 verses
- 1 Peter 1:3 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1 Peter 1:21 ἐλπίδα n acc sg fem who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- 1 Peter 3:15 ἐλπίδος n gen sg fem But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
1 John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ελπις — transliterated elpís — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “hope.” Debuting at Acts 2:26, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 48 verses across 15 books of the Greek New Testament, among its moderately common vocabulary. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. Related forms include ελπιζω. See the sense tree, 48-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1680 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 48
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 48 distinct verses.
- 15 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 15 of 27 New Testament books.
- #300
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 300 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 48 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 48 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 31 verses · 65%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 17%
- Hebrews 5 verses · 10%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 8%
- Johannine 1 verse · 2%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hope 52×
- American Standard Version: Hope 50×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hope 49×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hope 51×, A 2×, Certain hope 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1680 across 54 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1680 across 55 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1680 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1680 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- expectation of evil, fear
- expectation of good, hope
- on hope, in hope, having hope
Word origin
Origin: from a primary elpo (to anticipate, usually with pleasure)
From ἔλπω elpō which is a primary word (to anticipate usually with pleasure); expectation (abstract or concrete) or confidence : - faith hope.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1680 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐλπίδα elpída | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 24:15 | 18 |
| ἐλπίδος elpídos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Acts 23:6 | 13 |
| ἐλπίδι elpídi | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 2:26 | 12 |
| ἐλπὶς elpìs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Acts 16:19 | 8 |
| ἐλπίς elpís | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 8:24 | 2 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1680, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ελπις appears 78 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 75 verses in 14 books.
- 78
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 75
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 24:15 ἐλπίς
- Judges 18:7 ἐλπίς
- 2 Chronicles 35:26 ἐλπίς
- Job 2:9 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 4:9 ἐλπίς
- Proverbs 1:33 ἐλπίς
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 ἐλπίς
- Isaiah 24:16 ἐλπίς
- Jeremiah 2:37 ἐλπίς
- Lamentations 3:18 ἐλπίς
- Ezekiel 28:26 ἐλπίς
- Hosea 2:20 ἐλπίς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1680) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 75. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 24:15 ἐλπίς in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
- Judges 18:7 ἐλπίς Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put [them] to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
- Judges 18:10 ἐλπίς When you go, you shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
- Judges 18:27 ἐλπίς They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
- 2 Chronicles 35:26 ἐλπίς Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Yahweh,
- Job 2:9 ἐλπίς Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
- Job 4:6 ἐλπίς Isn't your piety your confidence, The integrity of your ways your hope?
- Job 5:16 ἐλπίς So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.
- Job 6:8 ἐλπίς "Oh that I might have my request; That God would grant the thing that I long for!
- Job 7:6 ἐλπίς My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
- Job 8:13 ἐλπίς So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- Job 11:18 ἐλπίς You shall be secure, because there is hope; Yes, you shall search, and shall take your rest in safety.
- Job 11:20 ἐλπίς But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
- Job 14:7 ἐλπίς "For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, That the tender branch of it will not cease.
- Job 17:15 ἐλπίς Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
- Job 19:10 ἐλπίς He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
- Job 27:8 ἐλπίς For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, When God takes away his life?
- Job 30:15 ἐλπίς Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
- Psalms 4:9 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 13:6 ἐλπίς I will sing to Yahweh, Because he has been good to me.
- Psalms 15:9 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 21:10 ἐλπίς You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.
- Psalms 39:5 ἐλπίς Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Psalms 59:10 ἐλπίς My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
- Psalms 60:4 ἐλπίς You have given a banner to those who fear you, That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.
- Psalms 61:8 ἐλπίς So I will sing praise to your name forever, That I may fulfill my vows daily.
- Psalms 64:6 ἐλπίς They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.
- Psalms 70:5 ἐλπίς But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.
- Psalms 72:28 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 77:7 ἐλπίς "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Psalms 77:53 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 90:9 ἐλπίς For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
- Psalms 93:22 ἐλπίς
- Psalms 107:10 ἐλπίς Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
- Psalms 141:6 ἐλπίς Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
- Psalms 145:5 ἐλπίς Of the glorious majesty of your honor, Of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
- Proverbs 1:33 ἐλπίς But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, And will be at ease, without fear of harm."
- Proverbs 10:28 ἐλπίς The prospect of the righteous is joy, But the hope of the wicked will perish.
- Proverbs 11:7 ἐλπίς When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, And expectation of power comes to nothing.
- Proverbs 11:23 ἐλπίς The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
- Proverbs 13:12 ἐλπίς Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
- Proverbs 14:26 ἐλπίς In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, And he will be a refuge for his children.
- Proverbs 22:19 ἐλπίς That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you.
- Proverbs 23:18 ἐλπίς Indeed surely there is a future hope, And your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 24:14 ἐλπίς So you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; If you have found it, then there will be a reward, Your hope will not be cut off.
- Proverbs 26:12 ἐλπίς Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 29:20 ἐλπίς Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 ἐλπίς For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
- Isaiah 24:16 ἐλπίς From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
- Isaiah 28:4 ἐλπίς and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he who looks on it sees, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1680) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
