apostellō · send

What it means

apostellō (ἀποστέλλω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “send”.

Someone on a mission. The word "apostle", one who is sent, comes from it.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To send someone somewhere on an errand, on behalf of the sender.
2. To send something, or send someone away.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To send someone on an errand; also to send away. Abbott-Smith: to send off; to send; to dismiss. From this verb comes ἀπόστολος, “apostle, one sent” (G652).

• “He has sent me to proclaim” Luke 4:18
• Jesus sends the twelve and the seventy-two Luke 9:2Luke 10:3
• “God did not send the Son into the world to judge” John 3:17
• “The one whom you sent” John 17:3
• “I am sending my messenger” Mark 1:2

How we translate it

“Sent” 99 times, “send” 18, “am sending” 7, “he sends” 4…

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sent ×99
• send ×18
• am sending ×7
• he sends ×4
• sending it ×2
• sending men ×1
• wrote ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×22
• Mark×20
• Luke×25
• John×28
• Acts×25
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×1
• 1 John×3
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the magi, was greatly enraged, and sending men, he killed all the children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time that he had learned precisely from the magi.

• Matthew 8:31

  And the demons were begging him, saying, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

• Matthew 10:5

  These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, saying, “Do not go off onto a road of the nations, and do not enter into a town of Samaritans;

• Matthew 10:16

  Look, I am sending you like sheep among wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

• Matthew 10:40

  The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.

• Matthew 11:10

  This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.’

• Matthew 13:41

  The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of stumbling and those who do lawlessness,

• Matthew 14:35

  And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word into all that surrounding region, and they brought to him all who were ill,

• Matthew 15:24

  But he answered and said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

• Matthew 20:2

  And after agreeing with the workers for a denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

• Matthew 21:1

  And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

• Matthew 21:3

  And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and at once he will send them.”

• Matthew 21:34

  And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to receive his fruit.

• Matthew 21:36

  Again he sent other slaves, more than the first, and they did to them the same.

• Matthew 21:37

  And finally he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Matthew 22:3

  And he sent his slaves to call those who had been invited to the wedding feast, and they were not willing to come.

• Matthew 22:4

  Again he sent other slaves, saying, ‘Tell those who have been invited, “Look, I have prepared my dinner, my bulls and the fattened animals have been slaughtered, and everything is ready; come to the wedding feast.”’

• Matthew 22:16

  And they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not care about anyone, for you do not look at the face of people.

• Matthew 23:34

  Because of this, look, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

• Matthew 23:37

  Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!

• Matthew 24:31

  And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

• Matthew 27:19

  And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Let there be nothing between you and that righteous man; for I have suffered much today in a dream because of him.”

• Mark 1:2

  As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way;

• Mark 3:14

  And he appointed twelve, so that they might be with him and so that he might send them out to proclaim

• Mark 3:31

  And his mother and his brothers come, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

• Mark 4:29

  But when the grain permits, at once he sends in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”

• Mark 5:10

  And he was begging him earnestly not to send them out of the region.

• Mark 6:7

  And he summons the Twelve and began to send them out two by two, and he was giving them authority over the unclean spirits.

• Mark 6:17

  For Herod himself had sent and seized John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

• Mark 6:27

  And at once the king sent an executioner and ordered him to bring his head. And he went and beheaded him in the prison

• Mark 8:26

  And he sent him to his home, saying, “Do not even go into the village.”

• Mark 9:37

  “Whoever receives one of such children in my name receives me; and whoever receives me receives not me but the one who sent me.”

• Mark 11:1

  And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples

• Mark 11:3

  And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it, and he will send it back here at once.’”

• Mark 12:2

  And at the season he sent a slave to the tenants, so that he might receive from the tenants some of the fruit of the vineyard.

• Mark 12:3

  And they took him, beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.

• Mark 12:4

  And again he sent to them another slave; and that one they struck on the head and treated shamefully.

• Mark 12:5

  And he sent another, and that one they killed; and many others, some beating and some killing.

• Mark 12:6

  He still had one, a beloved son; he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Mark 12:13

  And they send to him some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to trap him in what he said.

And 92 more times.