Bible word study
Elpis (Strong’s G1680): Meaning in the Bible
Elpis (ἐλπίς) is the Greek word numbered G1680 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as expectation (abstractly or concretely) or confidence. In the King James Bible it is translated faith, hope..
- Original wordἐλπίς
- Transliterationelpís
- Pronunciationel-pece'
- Strong’s numberG1680
- LanguageGreek
The full Strong’s definition
Derivation. from a primary (to anticipate, usually with pleasure);
How the King James Bible translates it
And Christ
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking but confident expectation grounded in a promise. Christians anchor it in the resurrection of Jesus, the firstfruits of a world made new.
The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.
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