ἤλπιζεν (elpizen)

ἤλπιζεν is an Ancient Greek form of ἐλπίζω, meaning “hope, expect”. It is the 3rd person singular imperfect active indicative.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.20.2: τοὺς γὰρ Ἀθηναίους ἤλπιζεν, ἀκμάζοντάς τε νεότητι πολλῇ καὶ παρεσκευασμένους ἐς πόλεμον ὡς οὔπω πρότερον, ἴσως ἂν ἐπεξελθεῖν καὶ τὴν γῆν οὐκ ἂν περιιδεῖν τμηθῆναι.

New Testament, Luke 23.8: Ὁ δὲ Ἡρῴδης ἰδὼν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐχάρη λίαν, ἦν γὰρ ἐξ ἱκανῶν χρόνων θέλων ἰδεῖν αὐτὸν διὰ τὸ ἀκούειν περὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἤλπιζέν τι σημεῖον ἰδεῖν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ γινόμενον.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 40.20.3: … τῷ τε στρατῷ καὶ τοῖς ἐπιτηδείοις κομισθῆναι, καὶ μετʼ αὐτῶν (προσποιήσεσθαι γάρ σφας ἅτε καὶ Ἕλληνας ῥᾳδίως ἤλπιζενʼ ἐπὶ

All forms of ἐλπίζω (conjugation 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.