noun · feminine

hupostolas

Greekὑποστολή (hupostolē)

Strong’sG5289

a shrinking, drawing back

stem hupostol-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

shrink back1×

What it means

*† ὑπο-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< ὑποστέλλω),

1. a letting down, lowering (Plut.).

2. a shrinking back (Hesych.): οὐκ ἐσμὲν ὑποστολῆς (on the gen., v. Bl., § 35, 2), He 10:39.†

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.

Every form

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

hupostolstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hupostolau“shrink back”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Hebrews 10:39“shrink back”nis de ouk anō hupostolau eis apōleian, alla pistiau eis peripoiēsian psuchau.But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.