Apelpizo describes refraining from despair in the context of lending without expecting return.

Its sole attested use describes refraining from despair within an instruction to lend without expecting anything in return.

1. Refraining from despair while lending · dominant

   In Luke 6:35, ἀπελπίζοντες is a present active participle in the instruction to love enemies, do good, and lend; the APB renders the surrounding clause, “expecting nothing in return.”

   Luke 6:35

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 6:35, the APB presents the surrounding instruction as lending “expecting nothing in return.” Its exact rendering of the participle cannot be isolated with certainty.