Quick Definition
I shrink, am fearful
Strong's Definition
to be timid
Derivation: from G1167 (δειλία);
KJV Usage: be afraid
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
δειλιάω, δειλιω; (δειλία, which see); to be timid, fearful: Joh_14:27. (Deu_31:6; Deu_1:21 and often in the Sept.; Sir_22:16 Sir_31:16 (Sir_34:16); 4Ma_14:4. Diodorus 20, 78. The Greeks prefer the compound ἀποδειλιω.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
δειλιάω deiliaō 1x
to be timid, be in fear, Joh_14:27
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
δειλιάω , -ῶ
( < δειλία ),
[in LXX for H2865 ni ,. H6342 , etc.;]
= the more freq . ἀποδ -,
to be cowardly, timid, fearful: Joh_14:27 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
δειλιάω [page 138]
In P Par 68 C. .4 a person condemned to death writes to the Emperor ἐπὶ τοῦτον δὲ πορευόμενος οὐ δειλιάσω σοι τὴν ἀλήθειαν εἰπεῖν . The form δειλαίνω , found in Aristotle, occurs in P Tebt I. 58 .27 (B.C. 111) οὗτος οὖν θεωρήσας με ὡς προσεδρεύοντα καθ᾽η μέραν ὡσεὶ δεδίλανται , seeing me in daily attendance he has as it were turned coward (Edd.).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
δειλιάω "to be afraid".
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
δειλιάω, -ῶ
(δειλία), [in LXX for חתת ni., פּחד, etc. ;]
= the more frequently ἀποδ-, to be cowardly, timid, fearful: Jhn.14:27.†
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