Strong's Concordance hupostelló: to draw in, let down, draw back Original Word: ὑποστέλλωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hupostelló Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-os-tel'-lo) Short Definition: I draw back, conceal Definition: I withdraw, draw back, keep back, shun, conceal. HELPS Word-studies 5288 hypostéllō (from 5259 /hypó, "under" and 4724 /stéllō, "draw in") – properly, draw under, pulling back to retreat (go backwards); withdraw (shrink from); shun; "back off," especially due to compromise. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5288: ὑποστέλλωὑποστέλλω: imperfect ὑπεστελλον; 1 aorist middle ὑπεστειλάμην; 1. Active, to draw down, let down, lower: ἱστίον, Pindar Isthm. 2, 59; to withdraw (draw back): ἐμαυτόν, of a timid person, Galatians 2:12 ((cf. Lightfoot at the passage); often so in Polybius). 2. Middle, to withdraw oneself, i. e. to be timid, to cower, shrink: of those who from timidity hesitate to avow what they believe, Hebrews 10:38 (from Habakkuk 2:4 (cf. Winers Grammar, 523 (487))); to be unwilling to utter from fear, to shrink from declaring, to conceal, dissemble: followed by τοῦ with the infinitive (Winers Grammar, 325 (305); Buttmann, 270 (232)), Acts 20:27; οὐδέν, ibid. 20 (often so in Demosthenes; cf. Reiske, Index graecit. Demosthenes, p. 774f; Josephus, Vita §54; b. j. 1, 20, 1). From hupo and stello; to withhold under (out of sight), i.e. (reflexively) to cower or shrink, (figuratively) to conceal (reserve) -- draw (keep) back, shun, withdraw. see GREEK hupo see GREEK stello Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 52884 Occurrences ὑπεστειλάμην — 2 Occ. ὑπέστελλεν — 1 Occ. ὑποστείληται — 1 Occ. Acts 20:20 V-AIM-1S GRK: ὡς οὐδὲν ὑπεστειλάμην τῶν συμφερόντων NAS: how I did not shrink from declaring KJV: [And] how I kept back nothing INT: how nothing I kept back of what is profitable Acts 20:27 V-AIM-1S Galatians 2:12 V-IIA-3S Hebrews 10:38 V-ASM-3S |