5288. hupostelló
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hupostelló: to draw in, let down, draw back
Original Word: ὑποστέλλω
Part 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.

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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.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from hupo and stelló
Definition
to draw in, let down, draw back
NASB Translation
shrink (2), shrinks back (1), withdraw (1).

Thayer's
STRONGS NT 5288: ὑποστέλλω

ὑποστέλλω: 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).



Strong's
draw back, shun, withdraw.

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

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