Word Summary
apelpizō: to despair of
Original Word: ἀπελπίζωTransliteration: apelpizō
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-el-pid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to despair of
Meaning: to despair of
Strong's Concordance
fully expect
From apo and elpizo; to hope out, i.e. Fully expect -- hope for again.
see GREEK apo
see GREEK elpizo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 560: ἀπελπίζωἀπελπίζω (Lachmann
ἀφελπίζω (cf. grammatical references under the word
ἀφειδον));
to despair (
Winer's Grammar, 24):
μηδέν ἀπελπίζοντες nothing despairing namely, of the hoped-for recompense from God the requiter,
Luke 6:35 (
T WH marginal reading
μηδένα ἀπελπίζοντες; if this reading is to be tolerated it may be rendered
despairing of no one, or even
causing no one to despair (cf. the Jerus: Syriac).
Tdf. himself seems half inclined to take
μηδένα as neuter plural, a form thought to be not wholly unprecedented; cf.
Stephanus' Thesaurus v. col. 962). (
Isaiah 29:19; 2 Macc. 9:18; Sir. 22:21; (
; Judith 9:11); often in Polybius and Diodorus (cf. Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word).) STRONGS NT 560: ἀφελπίζωἀφελπίζω, equivalent to ἀπελπίζω, which see; cf. ἀφειδον.