Lexicon apostolé: a sending away Original Word: ἀποστολή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apostolé Phonetic Spelling: (ap-os-tol-ay') Short Definition: commission, duty of apostle, apostleship Definition: commission, duty of apostle, apostleship. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom apostellóDefinitiona sending away NASB Translationapostleship (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 651: ἀποστολήἀποστολή, ἀποστολῆς, ἡ ( ἀποστέλλω); 1. a sending away: Τιμολεοντος εἰς Σικελιαν, Plutarch, Timol. 1, etc.; of the sending off of a fleet, Thucydides 8, 9; also of consuls with an army, i. e. of an expedition, Polybius 26, 7, 1. 2. a sending away i. e. dismission, release: the Sept. Ecclesiastes 8:8. 3. a thing sent, esp of gifts: 1 Kings 9:16 (Alex.); 1 Macc. 2:18 etc. cf. Grimm at the passage 4. in the N. T. the office and dignity of the apostles of Christ (Vulg.apostolatus), apostolate, apostleship: Acts 1:25; Romans 1:5; 1 Corinthians 9:2; Galatians 2:8.
Strong's apostleship. From apostello; commission, i.e. (specially) apostolate -- apostleship. see GREEK apostello |
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