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Fainthearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Cowardly; timorous; dejected; easily depressed, or yielding to fear.

2. Fear not, neither be fainthearted Isaiah 7:4 .

Fainthearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wanting in courage; depressed by fear; easily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected.

Faintheartedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a cowardly manner.

Faintheartedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cowardice; timorousness; want of courage.

Cowardice Roget’s Thesaurus §862

N. cowardice, pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, effeminacy, poltroonery, baseness, dastardness, dastardy, abject fear, funk, dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet *, yellow streak*, coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock, coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say "bo" to a goose, slink, bob acres, jerry sneak, alarmist, terrorist|, pessimist, runagate

V. quail, be cowardly, be a coward, funk, cower, skulk, sneak, flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail, run away, show, the white feather

Adj. coward, cowardly, fearful, shy, timid, timorous, skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate, weak-minded, infirm of purpose, weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted, white- livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, smock-faced, unable to say "bo" to a goose, dastard, dastardly, base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, "in face a lion but in heart a deer", unmanned, frightened

Int. sauve qui peut, [French: every man for himself], devil take the hindmost, phr, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit

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6 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “fainthearted”

Deuteronomy 20:3

And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.

Deuteronomy 20:8

And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.

Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”

Isaiah 7:4

And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

and say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or disheartened over these two smoldering stubs of firewood—over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.

1 Thessalonians 5:14

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

And we urge you, brothers, to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, and be patient with everyone.

Sirach 2:13

Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

Sirach 4:9

Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.

Sirach 7:10

Be not fainthearted when thou makest thy prayer, and neglect not to give alms.