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ἐξαπο-στέλλω , fut.
A.“-στελῶ” LXX 4 Ki.8.12: pf. “ἐξαπέσταλκα” Attal. (v. infr.):—dispatch, “πρεσβευτάς” Plb.3.11.1; “στρατηγόν” D.S.19.102; “θεωρούς” SIG629.8 (Delph., ii B. C.); “βιβλίον τινί” Attal. ap. Hipparch.1.3.3:—Pass., to be dispatched, Philipp. ap. D.18.77, OGI90.20 (Rosetta, ii B. C.); “ὑπό τινων” Vit.Philonid.p.7C.; ἐξαπεσταλμένοι μάχεσθαι Aristeas 13; also “ἡμῶν ὁ λόγοσ-εστάλη” Act.Ap.13.26.
2. send forth, [“δαίμων] -στέλλων ὕδατα καὶ ἀνέμους” Sammelb.4324.16.
3. of prisoners, send before a tribunal, “ἐ. τινὰ δέσμιον πρός τινας” PTeb.22.18 (ii B. C.), etc.: —Pass., PTaur.1iii13 (ii B. C.).
II. send away, dismiss, e.g. a prisoner, Plb.4.84.3; ἐ. τινὰ κενόν send away empty-handed, Ev.Luc. 1.53; divorce a wife, LXXDe.24.4; expel, ἐκ τοῦ παραδείσον ib.Ge. 3.23.
III. discharge a projectile, Hero Bel.81.4 (Pass.).
IV. destroy, “ὀχυρώματα ἐν πυρί” LXX 4 Ki.8.12.
V. emit, display, “φαντασίαν” Procl.Hyp.5.72.
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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    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 77
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 8.12
    • New Testament, Luke, 1.53
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.11.1
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.84.3
    • New Testament, Acts, 13.26
    • Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 24.4
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 3.23
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 19.102
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