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hope

Meaning of “hope”

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.

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Direct Scripture definitionKJV context and cross-references
129 occurrences121 verses29 booksKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Ruth 1:12

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Job 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 4:6 · retained source text

Is not this thy feare, thy confidence; the vprightnesse of thy wayes and thy hope?

Job 5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 5:16 · retained source text

So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.

1611 marginal notePsal. 107.42.

Job 6:11
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 6:11 · retained source text

What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine ende, that I should prolong my life?

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 7:6 · retained source text

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.

Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 8:13 · retained source text

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.

Job 8:14
Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 8:14 · retained source text

Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web.

1611 marginal noteHeb. a spiders house.

Job 11:18
And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 11:18 · retained source text

And thou shalt be secure because there is hope, yea thou shalt digge about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Job 11:20
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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 11:20 · retained source text

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.

Job 14:7
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Job 14:7 · retained source text

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut downe, that it will sprout againe, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Job 14:19 · retained source text

The waters weare the stones, thou washest away the things which growe out of the dust of the earth, and thou destroyest the hope of man.

1611 marginal noteHeb. ouerflowest.

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Romans 8:24

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?

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