ἐλπίζω
[in LXX chiefly for בָּטַח, also for חָסָה, יָחַל pi., hi., etc.;]
to look for, expect, hope (for): c. acc rei, Ro 8:24, 25, I Co 13:7, He 11:1; c. dat. rei (τ. τύχῃ, Thuc., iii, 97, 2), Mt 12:21; seq. καθώς, II Co 8:5; c. inf., Lk 6:3423:8, Ac 26:7, Ro 15:24, I Co 16:7, II Co 5:11, Phl 2:19, 23, I Ti 3:14, II Jo 12, III Jo 14; seq. ὅτι, c. pres., Lk 24:21; c. fut., Ac 24:26, II Co 1:1313:6, Phm 22. As in LXX (WM, § xxxiii, d; and esp. in the pf., Ellic. on I Ti 4:10; Bl., § 59, 2), c. prep.; εἰς, Jo 5:45 (v. Ellis., l.c.), I Pe 3:5; seq. ὅτι, II Co 1:10; ἐπί, c. dat., Ro 15:12(LXX), I Ti 4:106:17; ἐν, I Co 15:19; c. acc, I Pe 1:13 (aor. imper. v. Bl., § 58, 2); τ. θεόν, I Ti 5:5 (of. ἀπ-, προ-ελπίζω, v. Cremer, 255).†