Greek verb · G5288
ὑποστέλλω
hypostellohoop-os-tel'-lo
to draw in, let down (ἱστίον, οὐράν, etc.).; to draw back, withdraw
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: hypostéllō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5288is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5288
to withhold under (out of sight), i.e. (reflexively) to cower or shrink, (figuratively) to conceal (reserve)
The King James renders it: draw (keep) back, shun, withdraw.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
hypostello is rendered "to draw in, let down (ἱστίον, οὐράν, etc.).; to draw back, withdraw". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to draw in, let down (ἱστίον, οὐράν, etc.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
Acts 20:20ὑπεστειλάμην
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to draw in, let down (ἱστίον, οὐράν, etc.)., and to draw back, withdraw.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to draw in, let down (ἱστίον, οὐράν, etc.). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly… |
| to draw back, withdraw | Tagged as
| WhereActs 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὑποστρέφω | hypostrepho | to return | Uses35 |
| ὑπόστασις | hypostasis | confidence/essence | Uses5 |
| ὑποστολή | hypostole | shrinking | Uses1 |
| ὑποστρώννυμι | hypostronnymi | to spread | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ὑπεστειλάμην2
- ὑπέστελλεν1
- ὑποστείληται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singular2V-AMI-1S
- verb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AMS-3S
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S
Acts
two uses
I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
- ὑπεστειλάμηνhupesteilamenverb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I did shrink back
For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
- ὑπεστειλάμηνhupesteilamenverb · aorist middle, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: I shrunk back
Galatians
one use
For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.
- ὑπέστελλενhupestellenverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he was drawing back
Hebrews
one use
But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
- ὑποστείληταιhuposteiletaiverb · aorist middle, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he shall shrink back
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.