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

Where Elpis appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Elpis (G1680) stands behind 55 English renderings in 47 verses across 15 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Romans (13), Acts (8), Hebrews (7).

How the King James Bible renders Elpis, by count

• hope51 of 55 (93 percent)
• a1 of 55 (2 percent)
• faith1 of 55 (2 percent)
• hopes sake1 of 55 (2 percent)
• of1 of 55 (2 percent)

Three places to read Elpis

• Acts 2:26 Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
• Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

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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