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Hope in a Prison of Despair, by Mary Evelyn de Morgan, depicting Hope as a woman or very young man holding a lamp, representing the comfort brought by religious faith. Hope is a given name derived from the Middle English hope, ultimately from the Old English word hopian [1] referring to a positive expectation or to the theological virtue of hope.
Hope is an English, Scottish and Norwegian surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. A. D ...
In the United States in 2011, Faith and Hope was the fourth most common pairing of names for twins. Sixth was Heaven and Nevaeh ('Heaven' spelled backwards). [7] Faith, Hope and Charity (the three theological virtues) has been used for triplets, including the Cardwell triplets, who were Guinness-recognised as the oldest triplets ever. [8]
Tartan Hope. The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. [4] In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England. [4] Alexander Nisbet suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in ...
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
One example were the American triplets Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell, who were born in 1899 in Texas and were recognized in 1994 by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest lived triplets. [2] Charity has never been as popular a name in the United States as Faith or Hope. It ranked in the top 500 names for American girls ...
'hope'; Hebrew: עמל, lit. 'toil' or 'labor') is a unisex given name of Hebrew and Arabic origin. It is mentioned in the Books of Chronicles of Hebrew bible. [1] Notable people with the name include: Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol (1940–1983), Egyptian poet; Amal Aden (born 1983), Somali–Norwegian writer
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Statue of Hope (1817), The Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen. In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings.