5288. hupostelló

Strong's Lexicon

hupostelló: To draw back, to withdraw, to shrink from declaring.

Original Word: ὑποστέλλω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: hupostelló
Pronunciation: hoo-pos-tel'-lo
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-os-tel'-lo)
Definition: To draw back, to withdraw, to shrink from declaring.
Meaning: 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.

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 Greek Lexicon

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 Exhaustive Concordance

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

Forms and Transliterations

υπεστειλαμην υπεστειλάμην ὑπεστειλάμην υπέστελλε υπεστελλεν ὑπέστελλεν υποστείλη υποστειληται υποστείληται υποστείληταί ὑποστείληται υποστελείσθε υποστελείται υπόστημα υποστήματι υποστηρίγματα υποστηριγμάτων υποστηρίζει hypesteilamen hypesteilamēn hypesteilámen hypesteilámēn hypestellen hypéstellen hyposteiletai hyposteilētai hyposteíletai hyposteílētai upesteilamen upesteilamēn upestellen uposteiletai uposteilētai

Englishman's Concordance

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
GRK: οὐ γὰρ ὑπεστειλάμην τοῦ μὴ
NAS: For I did not shrink from declaring
KJV: I have not shunned to declare unto you
INT: not indeed I kept back not

Galatians 2:12 V-IIA-3S
GRK: δὲ ἦλθον ὑπέστελλεν καὶ ἀφώριζεν
NAS: they came, he [began] to withdraw and hold
KJV: they were come, he withdrew and
INT: moreover they came he was drawing back and was separating

Hebrews 10:38 V-ASM-3S
GRK: καὶ ἐὰν ὑποστείληται οὐκ εὐδοκεῖ
NAS: AND IF HE SHRINKS BACK, MY SOUL
KJV: but if [any man] draw back, my soul
INT: and if he draw back not delights

Strong's Greek 5288
4 Occurrences

ὑπεστειλάμην — 2 Occ.
ὑπέστελλεν — 1 Occ.
ὑποστείληται — 1 Occ.