KJV dictionary & concordance
1. Expectation, trust, reliance, or the good expected. 2. The person or ground on which expectation rests. 3. To expect, look for, trust, or rely upon.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Ruth 1:12
Complete exact-word concordance
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Turne againe, my daughters, go your way, for I am too old to haue an husband: if I should say, I haue hope, if I should haue a husband also to night, and should also beare sonnes:
1611 marginal noteOr, if I were with an husband.
And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
And Shechaniah the sonne of Iehiel, one of the sonnes of Elam, answered and said vnto Ezra, Wee haue trespassed against our God, and haue taken strange wiues, of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.
1611 marginal notePsal. 107.42.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine ende, that I should prolong my life?
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.
1611 marginal noteIob 16.22. psal. 90.6 and 102.11 and 103.15. and 144.4. isa. 40.6. iam. 4.14.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish:
1611 marginal noteIob. 11.20 and 18.14. psal. 112.10. prou. 10.28.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a spiders house.
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
And thou shalt be secure because there is hope, yea thou shalt digge about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giuing vp of the ghost.
1611 marginal noteHeb. flight shall perish from them.
1611 marginal noteOr, a puffe of breath.
1611 marginal noteChap. 8.14. and 18.14.
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Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
2 · KJV context and cross-references
