ἈΠΕΣΤΕΙΛΑΝ, ἀπεστειλαν
APESTEILAN, apesteilan
Sounds Like: ap-es-TEI-lan
Translations: they sent, they dispatched, they commissioned
From the root: ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning 'to send away' or 'to dispatch'. It is often used in the context of sending a person on a mission or sending a message. It implies a purposeful sending, often with authority or a specific task in mind.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G0649 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 13 — 5:170
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 37:32
- Joshua — 10:6, 22:13
- Judges — 18:2, 20:12
- 2 Samuel — 10:6, 19:14
- 1 Kings — 20:14
- 2 Kings — 2:17, 10:5, 10:7
- 1 Chronicles — 10:9, 19:16
- 2 Chronicles — 24:23
- Ezra (Alpha) — 6:7
- Ezra (Beta) — 4:11, 5:7
- Nehemiah — 6:4
- Judith — 3:1, 4:4, 7:18
- Tobit — 8:13
- 1 Maccabees — 5:10, 8:10, 8:20, 8:22, 10:20, 12:3, 12:19, 14:20
- Jeremiah — 14:3, 43:14, 44:15, 46:14
- Baruch — 1:7
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 13:29
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 14:35
- Mark — 3:31, 12:3
- Luke — 19:14, 20:20
- John — 1:19, 7:32, 11:3
- Acts — 5:21, 8:14, 9:38, 13:15, 16:35
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἈΠΕΣΤΑΛΚΟΤΑ — having sent, one who has sent, him who has sent
- ἈΠΕΣΤΑΛΚΟΤΟΣ — of having sent, of having been sent, of one who has sent, of one who has been sent
- ἈΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΟΙ — sent ones, those who have been sent, apostles, messengers
- ἈΠΕΣΤΑΛΜΕΝΟΝ — sent, dispatched, commissioned, a thing sent, one who has been sent
- ἘΞΑΠΟΣΤΕΙΛΟΝ — send out, send forth, dispatch, send away
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