Sense

1. cowardly, craven, vile, worthless, afraid of . .
2. miserable, luckless, wretched, poor, poor wretch!, poor wretches!
3. miserable, wretched

Examples

• καὶ προσθήσουσιν οἱ γραμματεῖσ λαλῆσαι πρὸσ τὸν λαὸν καὶ ἐροῦσι. τίσ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ ὁ φοβούμενοσ καὶ δειλὸσ τῇ καρδίᾳ̣ πορευέσθω καὶ ἀποστραφήτω εἰσ τὴν οἰκίαν αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ δειλιάνῃ τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ ὥσπερ ἡ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 20:8)
• καὶ νῦν λάλησον δὴ ἐν ὠσὶ τοῦ λαοῦ λέγων. τίσ ὁ φοβούμενοσ καὶ δειλόσ̣ ἐπιστρεφέτω καὶ ἐκχωρείτω ἀπὸ ὄρουσ Γαλαάδ. καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ εἴκοσι καὶ δύο χιλιάδεσ, καὶ δέκα χιλιάδεσ ὑπελείφθησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 7:3)
• καὶ συνήχθησαν πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἄνδρεσ λοιμοὶ υἱοὶ παράνομοι, καὶ ἀντέστη πρὸσ Ροβοὰμ τὸν τοῦ Σαλωμών, καὶ Ροβοὰμ ἦν νεώτεροσ καὶ δειλὸσ τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ οὐκ ἀντέστη κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 13:7)
• καὶ γὰρ ἀπαρρησίαστοσ καὶ δειλὸσ ἅπασ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἄνθρωποσ οὐδὲν ἐσ τοὐμφανὲσ ἄγων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ λοχῶντεσ ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ ποθεν τοξεύων, ὡσ μηδὲ ἀντιτάξασθαι δυνατὸν εἶναι μηδὲ ἀνταγωνίσασθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀπορίᾳ καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ τοῦ πολέμου διαφθείρεσθαι, ὃ μέγιστόν ἐστι σημεῖον τοῦ μηδὲν ὑγιὲσ τοὺσ διαβάλλοντασ λέγειν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 9:1)
• εἴ τισ πανοπλίαν καλὴν ἐνδὺσ ἔπειτα φεύγοι πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων, ἐπισημότεροσ ὢν δειλὸσ ἀπὸ τῶν ὅπλων. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 17:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.