5288 hupostello {hoop-os-tel'-lo}
from 5259 and 4724; TDNT - 7:597,1074; v
AV - keep back 1, shun 1, withdraw 1, draw back 1; 4
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