Greek verb · G1821
ἐξαποστέλλω
exapostelloex-ap-os-tel'-lo
to send forth; to send away
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: exapostéllō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1821is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1821
to send away forth, i.e. (on a mission) to despatch, or (peremptorily) to dismiss
The King James renders it: send (away, forth, out).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
exapostello is rendered "to send forth; to send away". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to send forth".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
Luke 1:53ἐξαπέστειλεν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twelve uses are in Acts.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to send forth, and to send away.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to send forthwith accusative of person(s), Act.7:12 12:11, Gal.4:4; τ. ἐπαγγελίαν, Luk.24:49; τ. πνεῦμα, Gal.4:6; [τ. κήρυγμα, Mrk.16:1-20, "shorter... | Tagged as
| WhereMark 16:1When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James… |
| to send awaywith accusative of person(s), before εἰς, Act.9:30; before ἕως, Act.11:22; with inf., Act.17:14; κενόν, Luk.1:53 20:10-11.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐξαπατάω | exapatao | to deceive | Uses6 |
| ἐξαπορέομαι | exaporeomai | to despair | Uses2 |
| ἐξάπινα | exapina | suddenly | Uses1 |
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐξαπέστειλαν5
- ἐξαπέστειλεν5
- ἐξαπεστάλη1
- ἐξαποστελῶ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural5V-2AAI-3P
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular5V-2AAI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-2API-3S
- verb · future active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-FAI-1S
Luke
three uses
He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
- ἐξαπέστειλενexapesteilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has sent away
At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.
- ἐξαπέστειλανexapesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: sent away
So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.
- ἐξαπέστειλανexapesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they sent away
Acts
seven uses
When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.
- ἐξαπέστειλενexapesteilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he sent forth
When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
- ἐξαπέστειλανexapesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: sent away
When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
- ἐξαπέστειλανexapesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they sent forth
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”
- ἐξαπέστειλενexapesteilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: has sent forth
Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.
- ἐξαπεστάληexapestaleverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was sent out
The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.
- ἐξαπέστειλανexapesteilanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: sent away
Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”
- ἐξαποστελῶexaposteloverb · future active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: will send
Galatians
two uses
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- ἐξαπέστειλενexapesteilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sent forth
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
- ἐξαπέστειλενexapesteilenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: sent forth
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.