Discourage
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to be disheartened, dispirited, discouraged" (a, negative, thumos, "spirit, courage," from the root thu---, found in thuo, "to rush," denoting "feeling, passion;" hence Eng., "fume"), is found in Colossians 3:21 .
King James Dictionary [2]
Discourage discurage. dis and courage. See Courage.
1. To extinguish the courage of to dishearten to depress the spirits to deject to deprive of confidence.
Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3 .
2. To deter from any thing with from.
Why discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? Numbers 32 .
3. To attempt to repress or prevent to dissuade from as, to discourage an effort.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
(2): ( v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
(3): ( v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; - the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
