Lexicon hupostolé: a letting down, a shrinking back Original Word: ὑποστολή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hupostolé Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-os-tol-ay') Short Definition: a shrinking, drawing back Definition: a shrinking, drawing back. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 5289 hypostolḗ – properly, "draw down (under)," i.e. shrink (draw) back in apostasy; backwards movement (spiritually). See 5288 (hypostellō). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom hupostellóDefinitiona letting down, a shrinking back NASB Translationshrink back (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5289: ὑποστολήὑποστολή, ὑποστολῆς, ἡ ( ὑποστέλλω, which see), properly, a withdrawing ( Vulg.subtractio) (in a good sense, Plutarch, anim. an corp. aff. sint pej. § 3 under the end); the timidity of one stealthily retreating: οὐκ ἐσμεν ὑποστολῆς (see εἰμί IV. 1 g.), we have no part in shrinking back etc., we are free from the cowardice of etc. ( R. V. we are not of them that shrink back etc.), Hebrews 10:39 ( λάθρᾳ τά πολλά καί μεθ' ὑποστολῆς ἐκακουργησεν, Josephus, b. j. 2, 14, 2; ὑποστολην ποιοῦνται, Antiquities 16, 4, 3).
Strong's draw back. From hupostello; shrinkage (timidity), i.e. (by implication) apostasy -- draw back. see GREEK hupostello |
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