ἐλπίς

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *welp- (“to hope, expect”), like ἔλπω (élpō, “I cause to hope”).^[1]

ἐλπῐ́ς • (elpís) f (genitive ἐλπῐ́δος); third declension

1. hope, expectation, belief that something will happen
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 644c:

     πρὸς δὲ τούτοιν ἀμφοῖν αὖ δόξας μελλόντων, οἷν κοινὸν μὲν ὄνομα ἐλπίς, ἴδιον δέ, φόβος μὲν ἡ πρὸ λύπης ἐλπίς, θάρρος δὲ ἡ πρὸ τοῦ ἐναντίου

     pròs dè toútoin amphoîn aû dóxas mellóntōn, hoîn koinòn mèn ónoma elpís, ídion dé, phóbos mèn hē prò lúpēs elpís, thárrhos dè hē prò toû enantíou

     in addition to both of these, also opinions about things that will happen, for which the usual name is "expectation", and a particular : the expectation before pain is fear, while before the opposite is courage

2. object of hope
3. anxiety, boding

• → Coptic: ϩⲉⲗⲡⲓⲥ (helpis)
• Greek: ελπίδα (elpída)

• “ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐλπίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἐλπίς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἐλπίς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ἐλπίς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1680 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anticipation idem, page 32.
  • aspiration idem, page 45.
  • comfort idem, page 145.
  • expectation idem, page 293.
  • hope idem, page 405.
  • hopefulness idem, page 405.
  • promise idem, page 653.
  • prospect idem, page 653.
  • solace idem, page 792.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press