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ἐλπίδι (elpidi)

ἐλπίδι is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλπίς, meaning “hope, expectation”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 201 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.767: βάξιν, ὃ καὶ δηρόν περ ἐπʼ ἐλπίδι θηήσαιο.

New Testament, Romans 8.20: τῇ γὰρ ματαιότητι ἡ κτίσις ὑπετάγη, οὐχ ἑκοῦσα ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὑποτάξαντα, ἐφʼ ἑλπίδι

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume I 5.9.1: Ῥουφῖνος τῇ μῇ γλυκερωτάτῃ Ἐλπίδι πολλὰ

All forms of ἐλπίς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.