Word study · Greek
apostolos
apostle, one sent
Say it: ah-POSS-toh-loss (approximate)
ἀπόστολος
What it means
Someone sent with authority. Acts 1:2 and 1:25-26 use it for the twelve, restored to its number with Matthias.
Range of meaning
- MessengerSomeone sent with a message.
- EnvoySomeone sent to act with the sender's authority.
- The apostlesThe twelve, and later others such as Paul.
In Acts
- Chapter 1
"Numbered with the eleven apostles" (1:2, 1:25-26).
Every verse (28)
- Acts 1:2
- Acts 1:26
- Acts 2:37
- Acts 2:42
- Acts 2:43
- Acts 4:33
- Acts 4:35
- Acts 4:36
- Acts 4:37
- Acts 5:2
- Acts 5:12
- Acts 5:18
- Acts 5:29
- Acts 5:40
- Acts 6:6
- Acts 8:1
- Acts 8:14
- Acts 8:18
- Acts 9:27
- Acts 11:1
- Acts 14:4
- Acts 14:14
- Acts 15:2
- Acts 15:4
- Acts 15:6
- Acts 15:22
- Acts 15:23
- Acts 16:4
Verses where G0652 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources