Word study · Greek
apostellō
to send, to send out
Say it: ap-os-TEL-lo (approximate)
ἀποστέλλω
What it means
To send someone with a mission. John uses it with pempō for the sending of the Son by the Father, and of the disciples by Jesus: "As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (20:21). It is the root of "apostle," one who is sent.
Range of meaning
- SendSend someone out.
- CommissionSend with authority.
In John
- Chapter 20
"As the Father has sent me, even so I send you" (20:21).
Every verse (27)
- John 1:6
- John 1:19
- John 1:24
- John 3:17
- John 3:28
- John 3:34
- John 4:38
- John 5:33
- John 5:36
- John 5:38
- John 6:29
- John 6:57
- John 7:29
- John 7:32
- John 8:42
- John 9:7
- John 10:36
- John 11:3
- John 11:42
- John 17:3
- John 17:8
- John 17:18
- John 17:21
- John 17:23
- John 17:25
- John 18:24
- John 20:21
Verses where G0649 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources