Strong's #5288: hupostello (pronounced hoop-os-tel'-lo)

from 5259 and 4724; to withhold under (out of sight), i.e. (reflexively) to cower or shrink, (figuratively) to conceal (reserve):--draw (keep) back, shun, withdraw.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hupostellō

1) to draw back, let down, lower

1a) to withdraw: of a timid person

2) to withdraw one' s self, i.e. to be timid, to cover, shrink

2a) of those who from timidity hesitate to avow what they believe

2b) to be unwilling to utter from fear

2c) to shrink from declaring, to conceal, dissemble

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from G5259 and G4724

Citing in TDNT: 7:597, 1074

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Acts 20:20: "And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and"
Acts 20:27: "For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the"
Galatians 2:12: "but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing"
Hebrews 10:38: "faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure"