ἀποστέλλω

future ἀποστελῶ; 1 aorist ἀπέστειλα; perfect ἀπέσταλκα (3 person plural ἀπέσταλκαν Acts 16:36 L T Tr WH (see γίνομαι at the beginning); passive, present ἀποστέλλομαι); perfect ἀπεστάλμαι; 2 aorist ἀπεστάλην; (from Sophocles down); properly, to send off, send away;
1. to order (one) to go to a place appointed;
a. either persons sent with commissions, or things intended for someone. So, very frequently, Jesus teaches that God sent him, as Mt 10:40; Mk 9:37; Lk 10:16; Jn 5:36, etc. he, too, is said to have sent his apostles, i. e. to have appointed them: Mk 6:7; Mt 10:16; Lk 22:35; Jn 20:21, etc. messengers are sent: Lk 7:3; Lk 9:52; Lk 10:1; servants, Mk 6:27; Mk 12:2; Mt 21:36; Mt 22:3; an embassy, Lk 14:32; Lk 19:14; angels, Mk 13:27; Mt 24:31, etc. Things are said to be sent, which are ordered to be led away or conveyed to anyone, as Mt 21:3; Mk 11:3; τό δρέπανον i. e. reapers, Mk 4:29 (others take ἀποστέλλω here of the putting forth of the sickle, i. e. of the act of reaping; cf. Joel 4:13> (Joel 3:18); Rev 14:15 (under the word πέμπω, b.)); τόν λόγον, Acts 10:36; Acts 13:26 (L T Tr WH ἐξαπεστάλη); τήν ἐπαγγελίαν (equivalent to ἐπηγγελμενον, i. e. the promised Holy Spirit) ἐφ' ὑμᾶς, Lk 24:49 (T Tr WH ἐξαποστέλλω); τί διά χειρός τίνος, after the Hebrew בְּיַד, Acts 11:30.
b. The place of the sending is specified: ἀποστέλλειν εἰς τινα τόπον, Mt 20:2; Lk 1:26; Acts 7:34; Acts 10:8; Acts 19:22; 2 Tim 4:12; Rev 5:6, etc. God sent Jesus εἰς τόν κόσμον: Jn 3:17; Jn 10:36; Jn 17:18; 1 Jn 4:9. εἰς (unto, i. e.) among: Mt 15:24; Lk 11:49; Acts (Acts 22:21 WH marginal reading); ; (ἐν (by a pregnant or a Latin construction) cf. Winers Grammar, § 50, 4; Buttmann, 329 (283): Mt 10:16; Lk 10:3; yet see 1 a. above); ὀπίσω τίνος, Lk 19:14; ἔμπροσθεν τίνος, Jn 3:28; and πρό προσώπου τίνος, after the Hebrew לִפְנֵי־, before (to precede) one: Mt 11:10; Mk 1:2; Lk 7:27; Lk 10:1. πρός τινα, to one: Mt 21:34, Mt 21:37; Mk 12:2; Lk 7:3, Lk 7:20; Jn 5:33; Acts 8:14; 2 Cor 12:17, etc. Whence, or by or from whom, one is sent: ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ, Lk 1:26 (T Tr WH ἀπό); παρά Θεοῦ, Jn 1:6 (Sir. 15:9); ἀπό with the genitive of person, from the house of anyone: Acts 10:17 (T WH Tr marginal reading ὑπό), 21 Rec.; ἐκ with the genitive of place: Jn 1:19.
c. The object of the mission is indicated by an infinitive following: Mk 3:14; Mt 22:3; Lk 1:19; Lk 4:18 (Isa 61:1 (on the perfect cf. Winers Grammar, 272 (255); Buttmann, 197 (171))); Lk 9:2; Jn 4:38; 1 Cor 1:17; Rev 22:6. (followed by εἰς for: εἰς διακονίαν, Heb 1:14. followed by ἵνα: Mk 12:2, Mk 12:13; Lk 20:10, Lk 20:20; Jn 1:19; Jn 3:17; Jn 7:32; 1 Jn 4:9. (followed by ὅπως: Acts 9:17.) followed by an accusative with infinitive: Acts 5:21. followed by τινα with a predicate accusative: Acts 3:26 (εὐλογοῦντα ὑμᾶς to confer God's blessing on you (cf. Buttmann, 203ff (176ff)); Acts 7:35 (ἄρχοντα, to be a ruler); 1 Jn 4:10.
d. ἀποστέλλειν by itself, without an accusative (cf. Winers Grammar, 594 (552); Buttmann, 146 (128)): as ἀποστέλλειν πρός τινα, Jn 5:33; with the addition of the participle λέγων, λέγουσα, λέγοντες, to say through a messenger: Mt 27:19; Mk 3:31 (here φωνοῦντες αὐτόν R G, καλοῦντες αὐτόν L T Tr WH); Jn 11:3; Acts 13:15; (Acts 21:25 περί τῶν πεπιστευκότων ἐθνῶν ἡμεῖς ἀπεστείλαμεν (L Tr text WH text) κρίναντες etc. we sent word, giving judgment, etc.). When one accomplished anything through a messenger, it is expressed thus: ἀποστείλας or πέμψας he did so and so; as, ἀποστείλας ἀνεῖλε, Mt 2:16; Mk 6:17; Acts 7:14; Rev 1:1; (so also the Greeks, as Xenophon, Cyril 3, 1, 6 πέμψας ἠρώτα, Plutarch, de liber. educ. c. 14 πέμψας ἀνεῖλε τόν θεοκριτον; and the Sept. 2 Kgs 6:13 ἀποστείλας λήψομαι αὐτόν).
2. to send away, i. e. to dismiss;
a. to allow one to depart: τινα ἐν ἀφέσει, that he may be in a state of liberty, Lk 4:18 (19), (Isa 58:6).
b. to order one to depart, send off: Mk 8:26; τινα κενόν, Mk 12:3.
c. to drive away: Mk 5:10. (Compare: ἐξαποστέλλω, συναποστέλλω. Synonym: see πέμπω, at the end)