2 Corinthians 1:8
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
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2 Corinthians 1:8
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
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ἐξαπορέομαι
exaporéomai · ex-ap-or-eh'-om-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be utterly at a loss, i.e. despond
Strong's KJV usage: :--(in) despair.
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For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
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despair
DESPAIR, noun
1. Hopelessness; a hopeless state; a destitution of hope or expectation.
We are perplexed, but not in despair 2 Corinthians 4:8.
All safety in despair of safety placed.
2. That which causes despair; that of which there is no hope.
The mere despair of surgery, he cures.
3. Loss of hope in the mercy of God.
DESPAIR, verb intransitive [Latin To hope.] To be without hope; to hive up all hope or expectation; followed by of.
We despaired even of life. 2 Corinthians 1:8.
Never despair of Gods blessings here, or of his reward hereafter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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