Verb apelpizō (to hope in return, to despair) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Luke

6: 35But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return (apelpizō). Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Isaiah (LXX)

29: 19and the poor shall rejoice with joy because of the Lord, and the having been despaired (apelpizō) among men shall be filled with joy..

Esther (LXX)

4: 17zO God, who hast power over all, hearken to the voice of the having been despaired (apelpizō), and deliver us from the hand of them that devise mischief; and deliver me from my fear.

Judith (LXX)

9: 11For thy power standeth not in multitude, nor thy might in strong men: for thou art a God of the afflicted, thou art an helper of the oppressed, an upholder of the weak, a protector of the forlorn, a saviour for those having been despaired (apelpizō).

Sirah (LXX)

22: 21Though thou drewest a sword at thy friend, yet despair (apelpizō) not: for there may be a returning to favour.
27: 21As for a wound, it may be bound up; and after reviling there may be reconcilement: but he that betrayeth secrets [of a friend] has despaired (apelpizō).

2 Maccabees (LXX)

9: 18But for all this his [those of Antiochus Epiphanes] pains would not cease: for the just judgment of God was come upon him: therefore despairing (apelpizō) of his health, he wrote unto the Jews the letter underwritten, containing the form of a supplication, after this manner: