Dictionaries :: Despair

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Despair:

de-spar':The substantive only in 2Co 4:8, "perplexed, but not in (the Revised Version (British and American) "yet not unto") despair," literally, "being at a loss, but not utterly at a loss." "Unto despair" here conveys the force of the Greek prefix ex ("utterly," "out and out"). Desperate, in Job 6:26; Isa 17:11. In the latter instance, the Hebrew adjective is derived from a verb =" to be sick," and the literally, rendering would be "incurable" (compare Job 34:6, "my wound is incurable"). Desperately in Jer 17:9 the King James Version, where the heart is said to be "desperately (i.e. incurably) wicked" or "sick."

Nave's Topical Bible

Despair:

See DESPONDENCY

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Despair: Produced in the Wicked by Divine Judgments

Deu 28:34,67; Rev 9:6; 16:10

Despair: Leads To

Continuing in sin

Jer 2:25; 18:12

Blasphemy

Isa 8:21; Rev 16:10,11

Despair: Shall seize upon the wicked at the appearing of Christ

Rev 6:16

Despair: Saints Sometimes Tempted To

Job 7:6; Lam 3:18

Despair: Saints Enabled to Overcome

2Cr 4:8,9

Despair: Trust in God, a Preservative Against

Psa 42:5,11

Despair: Exemplified

Cain

Gen 4:13,14

Ahithophel

2Sa 17:23

Judas

Mat 27:5

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Despair:

is used in the NT in the Passive Voice, with Middle sense, "to be utterly without a way" (ek, "out of," intensive, a, negative, poros, "a way through;" cp. poreuo, "to go through;" (Eng., "ferry" is connected); "to be quite at a loss, without resource, in despair." It is used in 2Cr 1:8, with reference to life; in 2Cr 4:8, in the sentence "perplexed, yet not unto (AV, "in") despair," the word "perplexed" translates the verb aporeo, and the phrase "unto despair" translates the intensive form exaporeo, a play on the words. In the Sept., Psa 88:15, where the translation is "having been lifted up, I was brought low and into despair."

Despair:

lit., "to hope away" (apo, "away from," elpizo, "to hope"), i.e., "to give up in despair, to despair," is used in Luk 6:35, RV, "nothing despairing," i.e., without anxiety as to the result, or not "despairing" of the recompense from God; this is probably the true meaning; AV, "hoping for nothing again." The marg., "of no man," is to be rejected.