Strong G4724στέλλω
to avoid
- Transliteration
- stellō
- Pronunciation
- stel'-lo
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Probably strengthened from the base of G2476; properly to set fast (stall) that is (figuratively) to repress (reflexively abstain from associating with): - avoid withdraw self.
Detailed definition
στέλλω
[in LXX (mid.): Mal.2:5 (חָתַת ni.), Pro.31:24 (26), Wis.7:14 14:1, 2Ma.5:1, 3Ma.1:19 3Mac 4:11 *;]
1. prop., to set, place, arrange, fit out; hence, mid., to set oneself for, prepare (Wis, xi Mac, ll. with).
2. to bring together, gather up (in Hom. of furling sails), hence to restrain, check; mid., to restrain or withdraw oneself, hold aloof, avoid: 2Co.8:20; before ἀπό, 2Th.3:6
(cf. ἀπο-, ἐξ-απο-, συν-απο-, δια-, ἐπι-, κατα-, συ(ν)-, ὑπο-στέλλω).†
(AS)
[in LXX (mid.): Mal.2:5 (חָתַת ni.), Pro.31:24 (26), Wis.7:14 14:1, 2Ma.5:1, 3Ma.1:19 3Mac 4:11 *;]
1. prop., to set, place, arrange, fit out; hence, mid., to set oneself for, prepare (Wis, xi Mac, ll. with).
2. to bring together, gather up (in Hom. of furling sails), hence to restrain, check; mid., to restrain or withdraw oneself, hold aloof, avoid: 2Co.8:20; before ἀπό, 2Th.3:6
(cf. ἀπο-, ἐξ-απο-, συν-απο-, δια-, ἐπι-, κατα-, συ(ν)-, ὑπο-στέλλω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4724 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- avoid1
- that1
- withdraw1
First verses
- 2 Corinthians 8:20Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
- 2 Thessalonians 3:6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
στέλλω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.294, etc.)]: future στελῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 640)], Epic dialect στελέω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.287)]: aorist ἔστειλα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.20)], Epic dialect στεῖλα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.248)]: perfect ἔσταλκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.11.9, (ἀπ-, ἐπ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.2, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 863)]: pluperfect ἐστάλκει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 3.16.6, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37)]:—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.285, etc.)]: future στελοῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 604)]: aorist ἐστειλάμην, Epic dialect στειλ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.433, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 434)], etc.:—passive, future στᾰλήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἀπο-) 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.114 (variant), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.93; simple σταλήσομαι 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 2.4.2:)]aorist ἐστάλθην (in compound ἀποσταλθέντες) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“GDI” 5186.4 (from Crete), compareScholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.21)]; more frequently ἐστάλην [ᾰ], [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.49, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.159, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, etc.)]: perfect ἔσταλμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.62, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833d, etc.)]: pluperfect ἐστάλμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.25)], 3rd.pers. plural ἐστάλατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 288)]; ἐσταλάδατο and ἐστελάδατο uncertain linesin [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.89 (to be read ἐστάλατο))]:—make ready, οὓς ἑτάρους στέλλοντα καὶ ὀτρύνοντα μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.294; οὔτε κέ σε στέλλοιμι μάχην ἐς κυδιάνειραν 12.325)]; νῆα σ. rig or fit her out, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.287, compare 14.247; πλοῖον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52; ναῦς τριάκοντα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.20; τὰ ἐκ νεώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1077: also στρατιήν, στόλον, στρατόν)], fit out an armament, get it ready, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.141, 5.64, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 177, etc.; ᾧ δὴ τόνδε πλοῦν ἐστείλαμεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1045: also στέλλειν τινὰ ἐσθῆτι)] furnish with, array in, a garment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14; χιτῶνι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 612: with double _accusative_, στολὴν σ. τινά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 827 {στέλμα}; σ. τινὰς ὡς δεσποίνας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.5)]; σ. ἕλκος dress it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 14)]; bury, ἐνὶ γαίῃ σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.205:)] —middle, στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ.. πέπλους put on robes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 821: with _dative_, ἐσθῆτι στειλάμενοι)] having dressed themselves in.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 32: _metaphorically_, σ. κιθάρην 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.2)]:—passive, fit oneself out, get ready, ἄλλοι δὲ στέλλεσθε do you others prepare (to compete in the games), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.285; στρατὸν κάλλιστα ἐσταλμένον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.26, compare 3.14, 7.93: with _accusative_ _cognate_, τὴν αὐτὴν ταύτην ἐστ. [prev. work] 62: with _dative_, πρεπούσῃ στολῇ ἐστ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833d)]: followed by a preposition, ἐσταλμένος ἐπὶ πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.7)]; ἐς ἄγραν, ἐπ᾽ ἄγρην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 604, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.535 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus); περὶ ὄργια 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1000 (Lyric poetry): with)]infinitive, ἐστέλλετο ἀπιέναι he prepared to go, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.124; κινεῖν κώπας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 181 (Lyric poetry).)]
II dispatch, send, ἐς οἶκον πάλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 389, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 119 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐξ ἑνὸς στείλαντος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 737)]:—middle and passive, set out, or (especially in aorist 2 passive) journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.165, 3.53, 4.159, 5.92.β)]: with accusative cognate, ὁδὸν στέλλεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1416 (_anapaest meter_), compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.296; πρὸς θάλασσαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1527; ἐπὶ τὸν χρυσόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102; ἐπὶ πλοῖα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.1.5; τούτων γὰρ οὕνεκ᾽ ἐστάλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 328; ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.49; οἷπερ ἐστάλην ὁδοῦ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 404; οἴκαδε Τροίας ἄπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1264)]; κατὰ γῆν (variant{γῆς}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.5: _absolutely_, στέλλου, κομίζου)]begone! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 394: with _accusative_ loci, ὀμφαλὸν γῆς σ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 668; μέλαθρα [prev. author] “HF” 109 (Lyric poetry))]; of things, to be sent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 776: _metaphorically_ of speech, ἀέρα ἐκπέμπειν στελλόμενον ὑφ᾽ ἑκάστων τῶν παθῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.27U.)]
II.2 active intransitive in sense of the passive (in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and Trag.))], prepare to go, start, set forth, ἔστελλε ἐς ἀποικίην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.147, compare 148, 5.125, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 571, 640: with _accusative_ _cognate_, κέλευθον τήνδε.. ἔστειλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 609.)]
II.3 middle, set out upon a task, στέλλεσθαι πρός τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 50e; ἐπί τι [prev. author] “Sph.” 230b)]; ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο στελλώμεθ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 892e; ἐπὶ θήρας πόθον ἐστέλλου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 234 (_anapaest meter_); ἐπὶ τυραννίδ᾽ ἐστάλης 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 487.)]
III summon, fetch, bring a person to a place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 860, compare “OC” 298, “Ph.” 623, 983; ὑμᾶς ἔστειλ᾽ ἱκέσθαι [prev. author] “Ant.” 165, compare “Ph.” 60, 495)]; [ἐμπορίαν] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 313e:)] —middle, σ᾽ ἂν οἴκους τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐστειλάμην I would have sent for thee.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “OT” 434)]:—passive, [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 550 (conjecture).)]
III.b ἡ ὁδὸς εἰς Κόρινθον στέλλει leads to Corinth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 27.)]
IV gather up, make compact, especially as a nautical term, furl, take in, ἱστία.. στεῖλαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.11, 16.353; στείλασα λαῖφος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 723)]:—middle, ἱστία μὲν στείλαντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.433, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 320, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 851b8: _absolutely_, στέλλεσθαι (i.e. ἱστία) 3rd c.BC: Teles Philosophus p.10 H., 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.44.6)]; so ἐπιστολάδην δὲ χιτῶνας ἐστάλατο they girded up, tucked up their clothes to work, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 288, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.45: _absolutely_, στειλάμενος σιγᾷς “Anthologia Graeca” 11.149.)]
IV.2 check, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.7U.)]; repress, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.274, etc.)]:—middle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.20.4)]; λόγον στειλώμεθα draw in, shorten our words, i.e. not speak out the whole truth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 669)]; σ. τὸ συμβεβηκός hush it up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.85.7)]; πρόσωπον στέλλεσθαι draw up one's face, look rueful, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.107 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
IV.3 in Medicine texts, bind, make costive, τὰ στέλλοντα astringents, opposed to τὰ καθαίροντα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.221, compare 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Pr.Praef.”:)] —passive, φλέβες στέλλονται shrink up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 193.)]
IV.4 middle, restrict one's diet, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἀπόσχοιντο ὧν ἐπιθυμέουσιν, οὔτε στείλαιντο (variant{ὑποστ-}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 5)]; στελλόμενοι τοῦτο avoiding this, [NT (NT.2Cor.8.20; στέλλεο Περσεφόνας ζᾶλον “Supp.epigram” 2.615 (from Teos). (Cf. εὔσπολον, κασπολέω, σπολάς, σπόλος, σπελλάμεναι)]; probably I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] sq[uglide]el-. but not found in cognate languages; I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] st(h)el- is probably found in OSlavonic st[icaron]lati 'spread out', Latin lātus (from *stlātus) 'broad', with which στέλλω may be cognate)
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.294, etc.)]: future στελῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 640)], Epic dialect στελέω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.287)]: aorist ἔστειλα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.20)], Epic dialect στεῖλα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.248)]: perfect ἔσταλκα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 2.11.9, (ἀπ-, ἐπ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.2, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 863)]: pluperfect ἐστάλκει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 3.16.6, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.37)]:—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.285, etc.)]: future στελοῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 604)]: aorist ἐστειλάμην, Epic dialect στειλ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.433, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 434)], etc.:—passive, future στᾰλήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ ((ἀπο-) 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.114 (variant), 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 24.93; simple σταλήσομαι 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 2.4.2:)]aorist ἐστάλθην (in compound ἀποσταλθέντες) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“GDI” 5186.4 (from Crete), compareScholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.21)]; more frequently ἐστάλην [ᾰ], [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.49, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.159, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, etc.)]: perfect ἔσταλμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.62, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833d, etc.)]: pluperfect ἐστάλμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 3.25)], 3rd.pers. plural ἐστάλατο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 288)]; ἐσταλάδατο and ἐστελάδατο uncertain linesin [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.89 (to be read ἐστάλατο))]:—make ready, οὓς ἑτάρους στέλλοντα καὶ ὀτρύνοντα μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.294; οὔτε κέ σε στέλλοιμι μάχην ἐς κυδιάνειραν 12.325)]; νῆα σ. rig or fit her out, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.287, compare 14.247; πλοῖον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.52; ναῦς τριάκοντα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.20; τὰ ἐκ νεώς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1077: also στρατιήν, στόλον, στρατόν)], fit out an armament, get it ready, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.141, 5.64, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 177, etc.; ᾧ δὴ τόνδε πλοῦν ἐστείλαμεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1045: also στέλλειν τινὰ ἐσθῆτι)] furnish with, array in, a garment, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14; χιτῶνι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 612: with double _accusative_, στολὴν σ. τινά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 827 {στέλμα}; σ. τινὰς ὡς δεσποίνας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.5)]; σ. ἕλκος dress it, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 14)]; bury, ἐνὶ γαίῃ σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.205:)] —middle, στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ.. πέπλους put on robes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 821: with _dative_, ἐσθῆτι στειλάμενοι)] having dressed themselves in.. , [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 32: _metaphorically_, σ. κιθάρην 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.2)]:—passive, fit oneself out, get ready, ἄλλοι δὲ στέλλεσθε do you others prepare (to compete in the games), [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.285; στρατὸν κάλλιστα ἐσταλμένον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.26, compare 3.14, 7.93: with _accusative_ _cognate_, τὴν αὐτὴν ταύτην ἐστ. [prev. work] 62: with _dative_, πρεπούσῃ στολῇ ἐστ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 833d)]: followed by a preposition, ἐσταλμένος ἐπὶ πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.2.7)]; ἐς ἄγραν, ἐπ᾽ ἄγρην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 604, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.535 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus); περὶ ὄργια 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1000 (Lyric poetry): with)]infinitive, ἐστέλλετο ἀπιέναι he prepared to go, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.124; κινεῖν κώπας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 181 (Lyric poetry).)]
II dispatch, send, ἐς οἶκον πάλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 389, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 119 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἐξ ἑνὸς στείλαντος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 737)]:—middle and passive, set out, or (especially in aorist 2 passive) journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.165, 3.53, 4.159, 5.92.β)]: with accusative cognate, ὁδὸν στέλλεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1416 (_anapaest meter_), compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.296; πρὸς θάλασσαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1527; ἐπὶ τὸν χρυσόν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.102; ἐπὶ πλοῖα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.1.5; τούτων γὰρ οὕνεκ᾽ ἐστάλην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 328; ἴδιος ἐν κοινῷ σταλείς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.49; οἷπερ ἐστάλην ὁδοῦ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 404; οἴκαδε Τροίας ἄπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1264)]; κατὰ γῆν (variant{γῆς}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.5: _absolutely_, στέλλου, κομίζου)]begone! [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 394: with _accusative_ loci, ὀμφαλὸν γῆς σ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 668; μέλαθρα [prev. author] “HF” 109 (Lyric poetry))]; of things, to be sent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 776: _metaphorically_ of speech, ἀέρα ἐκπέμπειν στελλόμενον ὑφ᾽ ἑκάστων τῶν παθῶν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.27U.)]
II.2 active intransitive in sense of the passive (in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus and Trag.))], prepare to go, start, set forth, ἔστελλε ἐς ἀποικίην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.147, compare 148, 5.125, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 571, 640: with _accusative_ _cognate_, κέλευθον τήνδε.. ἔστειλα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 609.)]
II.3 middle, set out upon a task, στέλλεσθαι πρός τι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 50e; ἐπί τι [prev. author] “Sph.” 230b)]; ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο στελλώμεθ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Lg.” 892e; ἐπὶ θήρας πόθον ἐστέλλου 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 234 (_anapaest meter_); ἐπὶ τυραννίδ᾽ ἐστάλης 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 487.)]
III summon, fetch, bring a person to a place, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 860, compare “OC” 298, “Ph.” 623, 983; ὑμᾶς ἔστειλ᾽ ἱκέσθαι [prev. author] “Ant.” 165, compare “Ph.” 60, 495)]; [ἐμπορίαν] [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 313e:)] —middle, σ᾽ ἂν οἴκους τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐστειλάμην I would have sent for thee.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “OT” 434)]:—passive, [Refs ([prev. author] “OC” 550 (conjecture).)]
III.b ἡ ὁδὸς εἰς Κόρινθον στέλλει leads to Corinth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 27.)]
IV gather up, make compact, especially as a nautical term, furl, take in, ἱστία.. στεῖλαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.11, 16.353; στείλασα λαῖφος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 723)]:—middle, ἱστία μὲν στείλαντο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.433, compare 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 320, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 851b8: _absolutely_, στέλλεσθαι (i.e. ἱστία) 3rd c.BC: Teles Philosophus p.10 H., 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.44.6)]; so ἐπιστολάδην δὲ χιτῶνας ἐστάλατο they girded up, tucked up their clothes to work, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 288, compare 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.45: _absolutely_, στειλάμενος σιγᾷς “Anthologia Graeca” 11.149.)]
IV.2 check, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.7U.)]; repress, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.274, etc.)]:—middle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 8.20.4)]; λόγον στειλώμεθα draw in, shorten our words, i.e. not speak out the whole truth, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 669)]; σ. τὸ συμβεβηκός hush it up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.85.7)]; πρόσωπον στέλλεσθαι draw up one's face, look rueful, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista “Praeparatio Sophistica” p.107 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
IV.3 in Medicine texts, bind, make costive, τὰ στέλλοντα astringents, opposed to τὰ καθαίροντα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.221, compare 3rd c.AD: Alexander Aphrodisiensis Philosophus “Pr.Praef.”:)] —passive, φλέβες στέλλονται shrink up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 193.)]
IV.4 middle, restrict one's diet, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἀπόσχοιντο ὧν ἐπιθυμέουσιν, οὔτε στείλαιντο (variant{ὑποστ-}) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 5)]; στελλόμενοι τοῦτο avoiding this, [NT (NT.2Cor.8.20; στέλλεο Περσεφόνας ζᾶλον “Supp.epigram” 2.615 (from Teos). (Cf. εὔσπολον, κασπολέω, σπολάς, σπόλος, σπελλάμεναι)]; probably I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] sq[uglide]el-. but not found in cognate languages; I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus)] st(h)el- is probably found in OSlavonic st[icaron]lati 'spread out', Latin lātus (from *stlātus) 'broad', with which στέλλω may be cognate)