Hope: 4 definitions
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Hope definition and references: One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Corinthians 13:13). It is joined to faith and love, and is opposed to seeing or possessing (Romans 8:24; 1 John 3:2). “Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity (1 Peter 3:15; Hebrews 10:23). In it the whole glory of the Christian vocation is centred (Ephesians 1:18; 4:4).” Unbelievers are without this hope (Ephesians 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:13). Christ is the actual object of the believer’s hope, because it is in his second coming that the hope of glory will be fulfilled (1 Timothy 1:1; Colossians 1:27; Titus 2:13). It is spoken of as “lively”, i.e., a living, hope, a hope not frail and perishable, but having a perennial life (1 Peter 1:3). In Romans 5:2 the “hope” spoken of is probably objective, i.e., “the hope set before us,” namely, eternal life (comp. 12:12). In 1 John 3:3 the expression “hope in him” ought rather to be, as in the Revised Version, “hope on him,” i.e., a hope based on God.
Hope definition and references: –General scriptures concerning Psalms 9:18; 16:9; 31:24;
33:18,22; 38:15; 39:7; 43:5; 71:5,14; 78:5-7; 119:74,81,116,166; 130:7; 146:5; Proverbs
10:28; 13:12; 14:32; 23:18; 24:14; Isaiah 38:18; Jeremiah 17:7; Lamentations 3:21,24,26; Hosea 2:15;
Joel 3:16; Zechariah 9:12; Acts 23:6; 24:14,15; 26:7,8; 28:20; Romans 4:18; 5:2-5; 8:24,25; 12:12;
15:4,13; 1 Corinthians 13:13; 15:19; 2 Corinthians 3:12; Galatians 5:5; Ephesians 1:18; 4:4; 6:17; Philippians 1:20; Colossians
1:5,23,27; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 5:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:16; Timothy 1:1; Titus 1:2; 2:13; 3:7; Hebrews 3:6; 6:11,18,19;
11:1; 1 Peter 1:3,13,21; 3:15; 1 John 3:3
–See Faith
–Of The Wicked Job 8:13; 11:20; 27:8; 31:24,28; Proverbs 10:28;
Zechariah 9:5; Ephesians 2:12
Hope refers to:—1.Hope and faith (the soul’s forward and upward look towards God) are imperfectly differentiated in the OT, as with men who ‘greeted the promises from afar’ ( Hebrews 11:13-16 ); hope has there the greater vogue.
Amongst the several Heb. words thus rendered, (1) signifying restful hope ( leaning on J″ [Note: Jahweh.] , &c [Note: circa, about.] .), oftener appears as ‘trust’ and sometimes as ‘confidence’ ‘hope’ in Job 6:20 , Psalms 16:9 , Proverbs 14:32 , Ecclesiastes 9:4 , Jeremiah 17:7 . (2) A subjective synonym (radically, the loins ) is variously translated ‘hope,’ ‘confidence,’ and ‘folly’ (cf. AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] in Job 8:14; Job 31:24; also Job 4:6 , Psalms 49:13; Psalms 78:7; Psalms 85:8 , Proverbs 3:26 , Ecclesiastes 7:25 ). (3) RV [Note: Revised Version.] corrects the ‘hope’ (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ) of Jeremiah 17:17 , Joel 3:16 , into ‘refuge.’ (4) A synonym hardly distinguishable from (5) and (6), and rendered ‘hope’ or ‘wait upon,’ occurs 8 times ( Psalms 104:27; Psalms 146:5 etc.). The two most distinctive OT words for hope are frequently rendered ‘wait (for or upon).’ Of these (5) bears a relatively passive significance ( e.g. in Job 6:11; Job 14:14 , Psalms 33:18-22; Psalms 42:5 , Lamentations 3:24 ).
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Expositions of Holy Scripture (by Alexander Maclaren)
The gospel-hope < [Colossians]
Manhood crowned in jesus < [Hebrews]
Be diligent < [Peter (second book)]
Hoping against Hope: Dealing with Hopelessness in Ancient Times and Today † < [Volume 11, Issue 7 (2020)]
Revolutionary Hope in Dark Times: Zizek on Faith in the Future < [Volume 11, Issue 5 (2020)]
What Are We Talking About When We Say ‘Hope’? Theological... < [Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025)]
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (by Philip Schaff)
To Neoptolemus < [The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.]
(For 341 < [Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life]
To Alexandra < [The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.]
Mahabharata (English) (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli)
Section CXV < [Bhagavat-Yana Parva]
Section LXVIII < [Anugita Parva]
Section XXXI < [Abhimanyu-badha Parva]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
A Hope for Hope < [Volume 22, Issue 2 (2025)]
Evaluation of a Spiritual History with Elderly Multi-Morbid Patients in... < [Volume 19, Issue 1 (2022)]
Hope in Hospitalized Patients with Terminal Cancer < [Volume 16, Issue 20 (2019)]
South African Journal of Physiotherapy
Parental experiences of a cerebral palsy clinic in a poor urbanizing community < [Vol 53, No 3 (1997)]
The diagnosis and treatment of the early changes in the rheumatoid wrist and... < [Vol 24, No 2 (1968)]
Post-natal rehabilitation < [Vol 8, No 3 (1954)]