to avoid

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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)

to avoid

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στέλλω, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future στελῶ [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect στελέω [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔστειλα [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect στεῖλα [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἔσταλκα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐστάλκει [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future στελοῦμαι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]: aorist ἐστειλάμην, Epic dialect στειλ, [Refs 8th c.BC+], etc:—passive, future στᾰλήσομαι [Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist ἐστάλθην (in compound ἀποσταλθέντες) [Refs 8th c.BC+]; more frequently ἐστάλην [ᾰ], [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἔσταλμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐστάλμην [Refs 2nd c.AD+], 3rd.pers. plural ἐστάλατο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐσταλάδατο and ἐστελάδατο uncertain linesin [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—make ready, οὓς ἑτάρους στέλλοντα καὶ ὀτρύνοντα μάχεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῆα σ. rig or fit her out, [Refs 8th c.BC+], fit out an armament, get it ready, [Refs 5th c.BC+] furnish with, array in, a garment, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἕλκος dress it, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; bury, ἐνὶ γαίῃ σ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+] —middle, στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ. πέπλους put on robes, [Refs 5th c.BC+] having dressed themselves in. , [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, fit oneself out, get ready, ἄλλοι δὲ στέλλεσθε do you others prepare (to compete in the games), [Refs 8th c.BC+]: followed by a preposition, ἐσταλμένος ἐπὶ πόλεμον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς ἄγραν, ἐπ᾽ ἄγρην, [Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, ἐστέλλετο ἀπιέναι he prepared to go, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II) dispatch, send, ἐς οἶκον πάλιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle and passive, set out, or (especially in aorist 2 passive) journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative cognate, ὁδὸν στέλλεσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ γῆν (variant{γῆς}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]begone! [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of things, to be sent, [Refs 5th c.BC+] II.2) active intransitive in sense of the passive (in [Refs 5th c.BC+], prepare to go, start, set forth, ἔστελλε ἐς ἀποικίην [Refs 5th c.BC+] II.3) middle, set out upon a task, στέλλεσθαι πρός τι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο στελλώμεθ; [Refs 5th c.BC+] III) summon, fetch, bring a person to a place, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ἐμπορίαν] [Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, σ᾽ ἂν οἴκους τοὺς ἐμοὺς ἐστειλάμην I would have sent for thee, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [Refs] III.b) ἡ ὁδὸς εἰς Κόρινθον στέλλει leads to Corinth, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] IV) gather up, make compact, especially as a nautical term, furl, take in, ἱστία. στεῖλαν [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, ἱστία μὲν στείλαντο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; so ἐπιστολάδην δὲ χιτῶνας ἐστάλατο they girded up, tucked up their clothes to work, [Refs 8th c.BC+] IV.2) check, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; repress, [Refs 1st c.AD+]:—middle, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; λόγον στειλώμεθα draw in, shorten our words, i.e. not speak out the whole truth, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. τὸ συμβεβηκός hush it up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; πρόσωπον στέλλεσθαι draw up one's face, look rueful, [Refs 5th c.BC+] IV.3) in Medicine texts, bind, make costive, τὰ στέλλοντα astringents, opposed to τὰ καθαίροντα, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] —passive, φλέβες στέλλονται shrink up, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] IV.4) middle, restrict one's diet, οὔτ᾽ ἂν ἀπόσχοιντο ὧν ἐπιθυμέουσιν, οὔτε στείλαιντο (variant{ὑποστ-}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; στελλόμενοι τοῦτο avoiding this, [NT]; probably I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] sq[uglide]el. but not found in cognate languages; I.-[Refs 5th c.BC+] st(h)el- is probably found in OSlavonic st[icaron]lati 'spread out', Latin lātus (from *stlātus) 'broad', with which στέλλω may be cognate)

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Verb

properly, to set fast ("stall"), i.e. (figuratively) to repress (reflexively, abstain from associating with); avoid, withdraw self; probably strengthened from the base of g2476 (ἵστημι)