noun · feminine
hupostolas
Strong’sG5289
a shrinking, drawing back
stem hupostol-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† ὑπο-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ὑποστέλλω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5289 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoop-os-tol-ay'
shrinkage (timidity), i.e. (by implication) apostasy
Fromfrom G5288;
King Jamesdraw back.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
fasting, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 omission of a letter, τοῦ ῑ Refs 2nd c.AD+: generally, removal, Refs
II shrinking, timidity, evasion, NT+5th c.AD+holding back, Refs 1st c.BC+; μετά τινος ὑ. with a certain reserve, Refs 5th c.BC+
III concealment, dissimulation, Refs 1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hupostolas | hupostolais |
| object accusative | hupostolan | hupostolain |
| direct address vocative | hupostolar | hupostolair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hupostolau1×ὑποστολῆς | hupostolaiu |
| to, for dative | hupostola | hupostolai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hupostola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
hupostolau“shrink back”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Hebrews 10:39nis de ouk anō hupostolau eis apōleian, alla pistiau eis peripoiēsian …… we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those …