G1680

• {"n":"elpis","s":"Hope. Confident expectation, not wishing.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=elpis","r":"Romans 8:24","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads hope."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**I hope it doesn't rain.** **The train is due at six.** The first is a wish. The second is an expectation. English uses the same word for the first and a different construction for the second."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Elpis is expectation, and in the New Testament it is expectation grounded in a promise. Classical Greek could use it neutrally of expecting something bad, which shows the word itself is about expectation rather than optimism."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English hope has drifted almost entirely toward the uncertain wish, so a word about confidence reads as a word about doubt."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a word reads as weaker in English than the argument around it requires, the English word has probably weakened."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Hope is universal in English versions."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f10\u03bb\u03c0\u03af\u03c2 elpis \u00b7 G1680"}],"src":["elpis at Romans 5:5; 8:24-25; Hebrews 6:19","Classical elpis of expecting evil: Euripides and elsewhere","Hebrews 11:1 defines it by substance rather than feeling"]}