5289. hupostolé
Strong's Concordance
hupostolé: a letting down, a shrinking back
Original Word: ὑποστολή, ῆς, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: hupostolé
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-os-tol-ay')
Short Definition: a shrinking, drawing back
Definition: a shrinking, drawing back.
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Cognate: 5289 hypostolḗ – properly, "draw down (under)," i.e. shrink (draw) back in apostasy; backwards movement (spiritually). See 5288 (hypostellō).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5289: ὑποστολή

ὑποστολή, ὑποστολῆς, (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 Exhaustive Concordance
draw back.

From hupostello; shrinkage (timidity), i.e. (by implication) apostasy -- draw back.

see GREEK hupostello

Forms and Transliterations
υποστολης υποστολής ὑποστολῆς hypostoles hypostolês hypostolēs hypostolē̂s upostoles upostolēs
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Strong's Greek 5289
1 Occurrence


ὑποστολῆς — 1 Occ.

Hebrews 10:39 N-GFS
GRK: οὐκ ἐσμὲν ὑποστολῆς εἰς ἀπώλειαν
NAS: But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction,
KJV: not of them who draw back unto
INT: not are of [those] drawing back to destruction

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