ἐλπίδες ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντες → hope is for the living, while the dead despair
from an unused root (meaning to be grassy); a meadow: plain. Compare also the proper names beginning with Abel-.from אָבֵל; a meadow; Abel, the name of two places in Palestine.: Abel.
