Okneo means “delay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3635 — kelal (“finish”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3635 ὀκνέω (okneo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. okneo (ok-neh'-o) v. 1. to be slow 2. (figuratively) loath It has 8 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include delay. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
okneo (ok-neh'-o) v. 1. to be slow 2. (figuratively) loath [from oknos (hesitation)] KJV: delay
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3635. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to delay
Usage: ὀκνέω, -ῶ (ὄκνος, shrinking, hesitation), [in LXX: Num.22:16 (מָנַע ni.), Jdg.18:9 (אָצַל ni.), Tob.12:6, 13, Jdth.12:13, Sir.7:35, 4Ma.14:4 * ;] to shrink from doing, hesitate to do (Hom., Thuc., al.); hence, to delay with inf., Act.9:38 (cf. Nu, l.with, and see MM, xviii).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render okneo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3635 (ὀκνέω) appears 7 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they came to Balaam, and they say to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: I beseech thee, delay not to come to me.
And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good, yet ye are still: delay not to go, and to enter in to possess the land.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes, and came to her, and he said, Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and drink wine, and be merry with us, and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians, which serve in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.
Then he took them both apart, and said unto them, Bless God, praise him, and magnify him, and praise him for the things which he hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise God, and exalt his name, and honorably to show forth the works of God; therefore be not slack to praise him.
And when thou didst not delay to rise up, and leave thy dinner, to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hidden from me: but I was with thee.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3635.
And they came to Balaam, and they say to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: I beseech thee, delay not to come to me.
And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good, yet ye are still: delay not to go, and to enter in to possess the land.
And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes, and came to her, and he said, Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord, and to be honored in his presence, and drink wine, and be merry with us, and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians, which serve in the house of Nebuchadnezzar.
Then he took them both apart, and said unto them, Bless God, praise him, and magnify him, and praise him for the things which he hath done unto you in the sight of all that live. It is good to praise God, and exalt his name, and honorably to show forth the works of God; therefore be not slack to praise him.
And when thou didst not delay to rise up, and leave thy dinner, to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hidden from me: but I was with thee.
None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death.
Be not slow to visit the sick: For that shall make thee to be beloved.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3635, grouped by book.
Okneo (Strong's G3635) is a Greek word most simply glossed "delay". okneo (ok-neh'-o) v. 1. to be slow 2. (figuratively) loath
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G3635 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3635 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as delay. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3635, with linked reader references where each row is available.