Original Word: ὀκνέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: okneó
Pronunciation: ok-neh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (ok-neh'-o)
KJV: delay
NASB: delay
Word Origin: [from oknos (hesitation)]

1. to be slow
2. (figuratively) loath

delay.

From oknos (hesitation); to be slow (figuratively, loath) -- delay.

Word Origin
from oknos (shrinking, hesitation)
Definition
to shrink (from doing), to hesitate (to do)
NASB Translation
delay (1).

STRONGS NT 3635: ὀκνέω

ὀκνέω, ό᾿κνω: 1 aorist ώ᾿κνησα; (ὄκνος (perhaps allied with the frequent.cunc-tari (cf. Curtius, p. 708)) delay); from Homer down; to feel loath, to be slow; to delay, hesitate: followed by an infinitive Acts 9:38. (Numbers 22:16; Judges 18:9, etc.)

Forms and Transliterations

οκνηρίαις οκνήσαι οκνησης οκνήσης ὀκνήσῃς οκνήσητε oknḗseis oknḗsēis okneses oknēsēs

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