ἐλπίς
(ἑλ-, Ro 8:20, WH, v. Bl., § 4, 3; M, Pr., 44), -ίδος, ἡ [in LXX for בָּטַח and its derivatives, תִּקְוָה (freq. in Jb), etc.;]
expectation (in cl., rarely of evil, mostly of good, and so always in NT), hope;
1. of hope in general: II Co 1:6; c. gen. obj., Ac 16:19; art. inf., Ac 27:20, I Co 9:10; παρ’ ἐλπίδα, Ro 4:18; ἐπ’ ἐλπίδι, I Co 9:10.
2. Of religious hope: ἐπ’ ἐλπίδι, Ac 2:2626:6, Ro 4:188:20, Tit 1:2; τῇ ἐ. ἐσώθημεν, Ro 8:24; κατ' ἐλπίδα ζωῆς αἰωνίου, Tit 3:7; of the Messianic hope of Israel, Ac 23:626:6, 728:20; of Christian hope, Ro 5:2, 4, 512:1215:4, 13, I Co 13:13, II Th 2:16, He 3:66:117:1910:23, I Pe 1:3, 213:15; c. gen. obj., Ro 5:2, Col 1:27, I Th 1:35:8, Tit 1:2; c. gen. of that on which the hope is based, Ac 26:6, Eph 1:184:4, Col 1:23; ὁ θεὸς τῆς ἐ., Ro 15:13; ἔχειν ἐ. (= cl. ἐλπίζειν), Ac 24:15, Ro 15:4, II Co 3:1210:15, Eph 2:12, I Th 4:13; seq. ἐπί, c. dat., I Jo 3:3; εἰς, Ac 24:15; ὅτι, Ro 8:20, Phl 1:20, 21. Meton.,
(a) of the author or ground of hope (cl.): I Th 2:19, I Ti 1:1; c. gen. obj., Col 1:27;
(b) of the thing hoped for: Ga 5:5, Col 1:5, Tit 2:13, He 6:18 (Cremer, 252, 712).†