Strong G3992πέμπω
to send
- Transliteration
- pempō
- Pronunciation
- pem'-po
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Apparently a primary verb; to dispatch (from the subjective view or point of departure whereas ἵημι hiēmi [as a stronger form of εἶμι eimi] refers rather to the objective point or terminus ad quem and G4724 denotes properly the orderly motion involved) especially on a temporary errand; also to transmit bestow or wield: - send thrust in.
Detailed definition
πέμπω
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁלַח;]
to send;
__(a) of persons: with accusative, absol., Mat.22:7, Luk.7:19, Jhn.1:22, 2Co.9:3, al.; ptcp. before verb., Mat.14:10, Act.19:31, al.; ptcp. before διά (= Heb. יָד;, 1Ki.16:20, al.), Mat.11:2 (cf. Rev.1:1); of teachers sent by God, Jhn.1:33 4:34, Rom.8:3, al.; with accusative and dative, 1Co.4:17, Php.2:19; before πρός, with accusative, Luk.4:26, Jhn.16:7, al.; before λέγων (cf. Heb. אָמַר שָׁלַח Gen.38:25, al.), Luk.7:6, 19; before εἰς, with accusative loc., Mat.2:8, Luk.15:15, al.; before εἰς (of purpose), Eph.6:22, Col.4:8, 1Pe.2:14; with inf., Jhn.1:33, 1Co.16:3, Rev.22:16;
__(b) of things : Rev.11:10; before εἰς, Rev.1:11; id., of purpose, Act.11:29, Php.4:16; with dative of person(s), 2Th.2:11; π. τ. δρέπανον σου (cf. εξαποστείλατε δρέπανα = מַגָּל שָׁלַח, Jol.3:13), Rev.14:15, 18 (cf. ἀνα-, ἐκ-, μετα-, προ-, συν-πέμπω)
SYN.: ἀποστέλλω, q.v (AS)
[in LXX chiefly for שָׁלַח;]
to send;
__(a) of persons: with accusative, absol., Mat.22:7, Luk.7:19, Jhn.1:22, 2Co.9:3, al.; ptcp. before verb., Mat.14:10, Act.19:31, al.; ptcp. before διά (= Heb. יָד;, 1Ki.16:20, al.), Mat.11:2 (cf. Rev.1:1); of teachers sent by God, Jhn.1:33 4:34, Rom.8:3, al.; with accusative and dative, 1Co.4:17, Php.2:19; before πρός, with accusative, Luk.4:26, Jhn.16:7, al.; before λέγων (cf. Heb. אָמַר שָׁלַח Gen.38:25, al.), Luk.7:6, 19; before εἰς, with accusative loc., Mat.2:8, Luk.15:15, al.; before εἰς (of purpose), Eph.6:22, Col.4:8, 1Pe.2:14; with inf., Jhn.1:33, 1Co.16:3, Rev.22:16;
__(b) of things : Rev.11:10; before εἰς, Rev.1:11; id., of purpose, Act.11:29, Php.4:16; with dative of person(s), 2Th.2:11; π. τ. δρέπανον σου (cf. εξαποστείλατε δρέπανα = מַגָּל שָׁלַח, Jol.3:13), Rev.14:15, 18 (cf. ἀνα-, ἐκ-, μετα-, προ-, συν-πέμπω)
SYN.: ἀποστέλλω, q.v (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3992 appears in 80 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- send76
- sent2
- thrust2
- be1
- his1
First verses
- Matthew 2:8And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
- Matthew 11:2Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
- Matthew 14:10And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
- Matthew 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
- Mark 5:12And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- Luke 4:26But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
- Luke 7:6Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter under my roof:
- Luke 7:10And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.
- Luke 7:19And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?
- Luke 15:15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
- Luke 16:24And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
- Luke 16:27Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
- Luke 20:11And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
- Luke 20:12And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.
- Luke 20:13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.
- John 1:22Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
- John 1:33And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
- John 4:34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- John 5:23That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
- John 5:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
πέμπω,
Epic dialect infinitive -έμεναι, -έμεν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.48, 10.18)]: Ionic dialect imperfect πέμπεσκε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.106)]: future πέμψω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.167, etc.)]; Doric dialect πεμψῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.141)]; Epic dialect infinitive πεμψέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.484:)]aorist ἔπεμψα, Epic dialect πέμψα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.442, 21.43, etc.)]: perfect πέπομφα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.10, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.48)]: pluperfect ἐπεμπόμφει, Ionic dialect -εε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.9, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85)]:—middle (not in early Prose, except in compounds ἀπο-, μετα-, προ-πέμπομαι), future πέμψομαι only falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 111)]: aorist ἐπεμψάμην [Refs ([prev. author] “Hec.” 977)]:—passive, future πεμφθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.1.4, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 27)]: aorist ἐπέμφθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.59, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1163, etc.)]: 3rd.pers. singular perfect πέπεμπται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 473, (προ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77)]; participle πεπεμμένος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.159, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 32, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.13)]: pluperfect ἐπέπεμπτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 36.18, (προὐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.79 (conjecture))]:—send, frequently of persons, as messengers, spies, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.116, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 37, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.15, etc.)]; of troops, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 34 (_anapaest meter_), “Th.” 470: with double _accusative_, ὁδὸν π. τινά)] send one on a journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 739, compare “El.” 1163 (_passive_))]; also of things, πέμψω δέ τοι οὖρον ὄπισθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.167, etc.)]; π. γράμματα, ἐπιστολήν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 310d, 323b)]; in letters, in the epistolary aorist, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.25, LXX.2Esd.4.14)]; π. κακόν τινι send one evil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.109; π. παραβᾶσιν Ἐρινύν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 59 (_anapaest meter_))]; ποινάς, ζημίαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Eu.” 203 (uncertain), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 506; ψόφον π. ἔσω [prev. author] “IT” 1308)]; ὕπνον, ὀνείρατα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 19, “El.” 460)]; frequently of omens, π.οἰωνόν, τέρατα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.310, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.15, compare “Smp.” 4.48; μαντείας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 149; also ἱκεσίους π. λιτάς [prev. author] “Ph.” 495)]; π. ἀρωγάς, ἀλκάν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 598, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 189 (Lyric poetry):)] —Constr.:
1 with accusative of place to which, π. τινὰ Θήβας, ἀγρούς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 1770 (_anapaest meter_), “OT” 761: also with _dative_, Ἀΐδᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 159 (_anapaest meter_): but usually with Preps., ἐς Τροίην, φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν, etc., 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.207, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.37, etc.; π. εἰς Ἀΐδαο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.48; δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.524)]; π. εἰς διδασκάλων send to school, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325d (so πέμπειν alone, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 216))]; π. ἐπ᾽ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης over.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.560, etc.)]; π.ἐπὶ Θρῃκῶν ἵππους to them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.464)]; but πέμπειν ἐπί τι send for a purpose, ἐπ᾽ ὕδωρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.12; ἐπὶκατασκοπήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.9 (π. εἰς κ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 45); π. ἀρωγὴν ἐπὶ νίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 477 codices (_anapaest meter_))]; π. ἐπί τινι send to him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.6)]; against.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 61 (_anapaest meter_), etc.)]; for a purpose, ἐπὶ πολέμῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.17)]; περί τινος about something, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.10)]; ὑπέρ τινος Epist. Philipp. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.12)]; παρά or πρός τινα to some one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.81, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.6; ὥς τινα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.50.)]
2 followed by adverbs, οἴκαδε, οἶκόνδε, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.281, 24.418; ὅνδε δόμονδε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.445; θύραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.461; πόλεμόνδε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.452, etc.)]; ἕταρον γὰρ.. πέμπ᾽ Ἄϊδόσδε was conducting or convoying Patroclus to Hades, [Refs (23.137.)]
3 followed by infinitive of purpose, τὴν.. ἅρμασι π. νέεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.8; ἕπεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.575; ἰέναι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.396; ἱκανέμεν 4.29; ἄγειν 24.419; φέρειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.454)]; φέρεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 681; μήτηρ με πέμπει πατρὶ τυμβεῦσαι χοάς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 406)]; send word, πέμπεις.. σῇ δάμαρτι, παῖδα σὴν δεῦρ᾽ ἀποστέλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 360)]; πέμπουσιν οἱ ἔφοροι.. στρατεύεσθαι sent him orders to march, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.7)]: also with participle, κήρυκας π. ἀγγέλλοντας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.76.22: the place from which is expressed by ἀπό or ἐκ, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.447, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.635, etc.)]
4 absolutely, ἐπέμψαμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ ἀποστάσεως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13; πέμπει κελεύων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 2.81; ἐκέλευε.. πέμπων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.1; ἔπεμπε πρὸς Κῦρον δεόμενος [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.5.4; ἔπεμπον ἐρωτῶντες [prev. author] “An.” 6.6.4, etc.)]
5 send forward, nominate a person for a post, ὀνόματα Wilcken [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Chr.” 28.20 (2nd c.AD):)] —passive [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (, [prev. work]392.7 (2nd c.AD).)]
II send forth or away, dismiss, send home, τὸν ξεῖνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.227, +others: less frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, as 24.780)]; χρὴ ξεῖνον παρεόντα φιλεῖν, ἐθέλοντα δὲ πέμπειν 'welcome the coming, speed the parting guest', [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.74; ὑπέδεκτο καὶ πέμπε 23.315)]; of the father who sends off his daughter to go to her husband, with dative,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4.5; π. τινὰ ἄποικον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1518, etc.)]
II.2 of missiles, discharge, shoot, πέτρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 716: _metaphorically_, ὄμματος.. τόξευμα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1005: _absolutely_, οἱ πολλάκις πέμποντες ἔστιν ὅτε τυγχάνουσι τοῦ σκοποῦ 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Vitae Sophistarum” p.495 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
II.3 of words, send forth, utter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 443, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 846 (Lyric poetry), 1445 (_anapaest meter_).)]
III conduct, escort, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.390, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.336, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 571, etc.)]; frequently of Hermes and other gods, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.626, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 12, “Supp.” 219)]; ὁ πέμπων absolutely, of Hermes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 133 (compareπομπός, πομπαῖος, etc.))]; of a ship, convey, carry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.556, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 136 (Lyric poetry); κραιπνοφόροι δέ μ᾽ ἔπεμψαν αὖραι [prev. author] “Pr.” 132 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.203 (_passive_).)]
III.2 πομπὴν π. conduct, or take part in, a procession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 757, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.56, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.80, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.26, etc.)]; π. χορούς move in dancing procession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 434 (Lyric poetry))]; Παναθήναια π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 494, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.22:)] —passive, φαλλὸς Διονύσῳ πεμπόμενος carried in procession in his honour, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.49, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 32, “Demetr.” 12; τῆς πομπῆς ὅπως ἂν ὡς κάλλισταπεμφθῇ “IG” 12.84.27; χορὸς ὁ εἰς Δῆλον πεμπόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.3.12.)]
IV send as a present, εἵματα, σῖτον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.83, 4.623)]; π. δῶρα, σκῦλα, ξένια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.106 (_active_ and _passive_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1429, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.42.)]
V send up, produce, ὅσα πέμπει βιόδωρος αἶα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1162 (Lyric poetry).)]
B middle, πέμπεσθαί τινα send for one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 602)], ubiv. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia; τί χρῆμ᾽ ἐπέμψω τὸν ἐμὸν ἐκ δόμων πόδ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 977.)]
B.II send in one's own service or cause to be sent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 556, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 14.)]
Epic dialect infinitive -έμεναι, -έμεν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.48, 10.18)]: Ionic dialect imperfect πέμπεσκε [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.106)]: future πέμψω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.167, etc.)]; Doric dialect πεμψῶ [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.141)]; Epic dialect infinitive πεμψέμεναι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.484:)]aorist ἔπεμψα, Epic dialect πέμψα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.442, 21.43, etc.)]: perfect πέπομφα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.12, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.10, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.48)]: pluperfect ἐπεμπόμφει, Ionic dialect -εε, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.9, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.85)]:—middle (not in early Prose, except in compounds ἀπο-, μετα-, προ-πέμπομαι), future πέμψομαι only falsa lectio in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 111)]: aorist ἐπεμψάμην [Refs ([prev. author] “Hec.” 977)]:—passive, future πεμφθήσομαι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 1.1.4, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 27)]: aorist ἐπέμφθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.59, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1163, etc.)]: 3rd.pers. singular perfect πέπεμπται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 473, (προ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77)]; participle πεπεμμένος [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.159, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 32, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.13)]: pluperfect ἐπέπεμπτο [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 36.18, (προὐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.79 (conjecture))]:—send, frequently of persons, as messengers, spies, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.116, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 37, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.15, etc.)]; of troops, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 34 (_anapaest meter_), “Th.” 470: with double _accusative_, ὁδὸν π. τινά)] send one on a journey, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 739, compare “El.” 1163 (_passive_))]; also of things, πέμψω δέ τοι οὖρον ὄπισθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.167, etc.)]; π. γράμματα, ἐπιστολήν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 310d, 323b)]; in letters, in the epistolary aorist, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.129, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.9.25, LXX.2Esd.4.14)]; π. κακόν τινι send one evil, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.109; π. παραβᾶσιν Ἐρινύν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 59 (_anapaest meter_))]; ποινάς, ζημίαν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Eu.” 203 (uncertain), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 506; ψόφον π. ἔσω [prev. author] “IT” 1308)]; ὕπνον, ὀνείρατα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 19, “El.” 460)]; frequently of omens, π.οἰωνόν, τέρατα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.310, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.15, compare “Smp.” 4.48; μαντείας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 149; also ἱκεσίους π. λιτάς [prev. author] “Ph.” 495)]; π. ἀρωγάς, ἀλκάν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 598, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 189 (Lyric poetry):)] —Constr.:
1 with accusative of place to which, π. τινὰ Θήβας, ἀγρούς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OC” 1770 (_anapaest meter_), “OT” 761: also with _dative_, Ἀΐδᾳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 159 (_anapaest meter_): but usually with Preps., ἐς Τροίην, φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν, etc., 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.207, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.37, etc.; π. εἰς Ἀΐδαο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.48; δόμον Ἄϊδος εἴσω 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.524)]; π. εἰς διδασκάλων send to school, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 325d (so πέμπειν alone, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 216))]; π. ἐπ᾽ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης over.., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.560, etc.)]; π.ἐπὶ Θρῃκῶν ἵππους to them, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.464)]; but πέμπειν ἐπί τι send for a purpose, ἐπ᾽ ὕδωρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.12; ἐπὶκατασκοπήν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.9 (π. εἰς κ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 45); π. ἀρωγὴν ἐπὶ νίκην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 477 codices (_anapaest meter_))]; π. ἐπί τινι send to him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.6)]; against.., [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 61 (_anapaest meter_), etc.)]; for a purpose, ἐπὶ πολέμῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.17)]; περί τινος about something, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.10)]; ὑπέρ τινος Epist. Philipp. cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.12)]; παρά or πρός τινα to some one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.81, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.2.6; ὥς τινα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.50.)]
2 followed by adverbs, οἴκαδε, οἶκόνδε, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.281, 24.418; ὅνδε δόμονδε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.445; θύραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.461; πόλεμόνδε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.452, etc.)]; ἕταρον γὰρ.. πέμπ᾽ Ἄϊδόσδε was conducting or convoying Patroclus to Hades, [Refs (23.137.)]
3 followed by infinitive of purpose, τὴν.. ἅρμασι π. νέεσθαι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.8; ἕπεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.575; ἰέναι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.396; ἱκανέμεν 4.29; ἄγειν 24.419; φέρειν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.454)]; φέρεσθαι[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 681; μήτηρ με πέμπει πατρὶ τυμβεῦσαι χοάς 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 406)]; send word, πέμπεις.. σῇ δάμαρτι, παῖδα σὴν δεῦρ᾽ ἀποστέλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 360)]; πέμπουσιν οἱ ἔφοροι.. στρατεύεσθαι sent him orders to march, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.7)]: also with participle, κήρυκας π. ἀγγέλλοντας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“IG” 12.76.22: the place from which is expressed by ἀπό or ἐκ, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.447, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.635, etc.)]
4 absolutely, ἐπέμψαμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς περὶ ἀποστάσεως [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.13; πέμπει κελεύων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 2.81; ἐκέλευε.. πέμπων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.1; ἔπεμπε πρὸς Κῦρον δεόμενος [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.5.4; ἔπεμπον ἐρωτῶντες [prev. author] “An.” 6.6.4, etc.)]
5 send forward, nominate a person for a post, ὀνόματα Wilcken [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“Chr.” 28.20 (2nd c.AD):)] —passive [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (, [prev. work]392.7 (2nd c.AD).)]
II send forth or away, dismiss, send home, τὸν ξεῖνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.227, +others: less frequently in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, as 24.780)]; χρὴ ξεῖνον παρεόντα φιλεῖν, ἐθέλοντα δὲ πέμπειν 'welcome the coming, speed the parting guest', [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.74; ὑπέδεκτο καὶ πέμπε 23.315)]; of the father who sends off his daughter to go to her husband, with dative,[Refs 5th c.BC+ (4.5; π. τινὰ ἄποικον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1518, etc.)]
II.2 of missiles, discharge, shoot, πέτρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 716: _metaphorically_, ὄμματος.. τόξευμα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1005: _absolutely_, οἱ πολλάκις πέμποντες ἔστιν ὅτε τυγχάνουσι τοῦ σκοποῦ 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Vitae Sophistarum” p.495 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
II.3 of words, send forth, utter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 443, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 846 (Lyric poetry), 1445 (_anapaest meter_).)]
III conduct, escort, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.390, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.336, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 571, etc.)]; frequently of Hermes and other gods, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.626, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 12, “Supp.” 219)]; ὁ πέμπων absolutely, of Hermes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 133 (compareπομπός, πομπαῖος, etc.))]; of a ship, convey, carry, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.556, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 136 (Lyric poetry); κραιπνοφόροι δέ μ᾽ ἔπεμψαν αὖραι [prev. author] “Pr.” 132 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.203 (_passive_).)]
III.2 πομπὴν π. conduct, or take part in, a procession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.56, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 757, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.56, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 13.80, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.26, etc.)]; π. χορούς move in dancing procession, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 434 (Lyric poetry))]; Παναθήναια π. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 494, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 4.22:)] —passive, φαλλὸς Διονύσῳ πεμπόμενος carried in procession in his honour, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.49, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aemilius Paulus” 32, “Demetr.” 12; τῆς πομπῆς ὅπως ἂν ὡς κάλλισταπεμφθῇ “IG” 12.84.27; χορὸς ὁ εἰς Δῆλον πεμπόμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.3.12.)]
IV send as a present, εἵματα, σῖτον, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 16.83, 4.623)]; π. δῶρα, σκῦλα, ξένια, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.106 (_active_ and _passive_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1429, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.1.42.)]
V send up, produce, ὅσα πέμπει βιόδωρος αἶα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1162 (Lyric poetry).)]
B middle, πέμπεσθαί τινα send for one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 602)], ubiv. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia; τί χρῆμ᾽ ἐπέμψω τὸν ἐμὸν ἐκ δόμων πόδ; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 977.)]
B.II send in one's own service or cause to be sent, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 556, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 14.)]