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Hope names 3 things on this site
- Hope, a subject the site gathers pages under.Character · Confident expectation grounded in what God has promised.
- Hope, a theme of Scripture.**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- Hope, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Featured studies
10 results- StudyEpsilon (Εε): the Greek letterShort e, and the first letter of the word we translate “church.”
- StudyLiving Hope: 1 Peter 1:3-9Begotten again unto a living hope through the resurrection: the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, the faith proved by fire, and joy unspeakable and full of glory.
- StudyThe RaptureThe blessed hope: four anchor texts, and four timings plotted on one seventieth-week line: pre-tribulational flagged, the rest at full strength.
- StudyGreat Is Thy FaithfulnessThree mercy-words packed into two verses, at the exact center of the most tightly ordered poem in the book: because of the LORD's mercies we are not consumed: they are new every morning, great is…
- Study1 Peter: the Study GuideA living hope through undeserved suffering: sojourners of the Dispersion, a royal priesthood of living stones, the Suffering Servant's steps to follow, the spirits in prison, and the Chief…
Subjects
1 resultVerses
174 results- VerseRomans 5:4perseverance, character; and character, hope.
- VerseJob 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
- VerseProverbs 11:7When the wicked man dies, his hope perishes, and the hope of his strength vanishes.
- VerseRomans 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
- VerseJob 5:16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH982 בָּטַח · bâṭach (Hebrew)figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure. The Hebrew word stands 120 times in the original text.
- WordH983 בֶּטַח · beṭach (Hebrew)properly, a place of refuge. The Hebrew word stands 42 times in the original text.
- WordH986 בִּטָּחוֹן · biṭṭâchôwn (Hebrew)trust. The Hebrew word stands 3 times in the original text.
- WordH2342 חוּל · chûwl (Hebrew)properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear. The Hebrew word stands 58 times in the original text.
- WordH3689 כֶּסֶל · keçel (Hebrew)properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera. The Hebrew word stands 13 times in the original text.
Themes
2 results- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
Topics
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1 resultVoices
6 results- VoicePacian of BarcelonaPacian was bishop of Barcelona in the second half of the fourth century. Jerome, who included him in his catalogue of Christian writers, says he was distinguished both for his…
- VoiceJonathan CahnJonathan David Cahn (born 1959) is an American Messianic Jewish rabbi, author, and the founder/leader of Beth Israel Worship Center (Wayne, New Jersey). Born in New York to a…
- VoiceGregory of NyssaGregory was born about 335 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, into a family that produced more saints than most centuries do: his grandmother Macrina the Elder had survived persecution…
- VoiceJohn the SolitaryJohn the Solitary — also called John of Apamea, from the Syrian city where he lived — wrote in Syriac in the first half of the fifth century. Almost nothing is known about his…
- VoiceTim KellerTimothy James Keller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1950. He grew up in a Lutheran church, went to Bucknell University in the late 1960s, and there…
Apocrypha (study resources)
56 results- Study resource2 Maccabees 9:22Not distrusting mine health, but having great hope to escape this sickness.
- Study resource1 Enoch 104:4Be hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven.
- Study resourceSirach 2:9Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy.
- Study resourceWisdom of Solomon 3:18Or, if they die quickly, they have no hope, neither comfort in the day of trial.
- Study resourceSirach 34:14Whoso feareth the Lord shall not fear nor be afraid; for he is his hope.
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H982בָּטַח bâṭach — figuratively, to trust, be confident or sureH983בֶּטַח beṭach — properly, a place of refugeH986בִּטָּחוֹן biṭṭâchôwn — trustH2342חוּל chûwl — properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fearH3689כֶּסֶל keçel — properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the visceraH4268מַחֲסֶה machăçeh — a shelter (literally or figuratively)