Lexicon apelpizó: to despair of Original Word: ἀπελπίζωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: apelpizó Phonetic Spelling: (ap-el-pid'-zo) Short Definition: I despair Definition: I give up in despair, despair of; I hope to receive from or in return. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom  apo and  elpizóDefinitionto despair of NASB Translationexpecting in return (1). 
 Thayer's 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.   
 
 
 
  Strong's fully expect From apo and elpizo; to hope out, i.e. Fully expect -- hope for again.  see GREEK apo  see GREEK elpizo   |  
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