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ἀποστολ-ή , ἡ, (ἀποστέλλω)
A.sending off or away, E.IA688, Ph.1043(lyr., pl.); dispatching, “νεῶν” Th.8.9; sending forth on their journey, “ξένων ὑποδοχὰς καὶ ἀ.” Arist. EN1123a3, cf. IG2.238.15; “δοῦναί τι ἀποστολάς τινι” as a parting gift, LXX 3 Ki.9.16, cf. 1 Ma.2.18.
2. shooting, discharge, “βέλους” Ph.Bel. 68.33.
3. discharge from service, “οὐκ ἔστιν ἀ. ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμου” LXX Ec.8.8.
4. payment of tribute, Jul.Ep.204.
II. (from Pass.) expedition, Th.8.8.
2. apostleship, 1 Ep.Cor.9.2, Ep.Gal.2.8.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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