To send out/away
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G1821 describes sending someone or something out from a place and can name Gods sending of the Son and Spirit, the church sending a trusted servant, protective departure, mission, or dismissal empty-handed. Sending can commission, reveal, rescue, protect, transfer, or reject, so the sender, one sent, destination, purpose, and result must remain visible.
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G1821 describes sending someone or something out from a place and can name Gods sending of the Son and Spirit, the church sending a trusted servant, protective departure, mission, or dismissal empty-handed. Sending can commission, reveal, rescue, protect, transfer, or reject, so the sender, one sent, destination, purpose, and result must remain visible.
The BSB source-word alignment has 12 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include sent (3), has sent (2), [and] sent him away (1), has been sent (1), he sent (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Luke 1:53. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (7), Luke (3), Galatians (2).
G1821 describes sending someone or something out from a place and can name Gods sending of the Son and Spirit, the church sending a trusted servant, protective departure, mission, or dismissal empty-handed. Sending can commission, reveal, rescue, protect, transfer, or reject, so the sender, one sent, destination, purpose, and result must remain visible. In Gal.
4. 4, When the fullness of time arrives, God sends His Son, born of a woman and under the law, to redeem those under the law. In Gal. 4. 6, because believers are sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into their hearts, where the Spirit cries Abba, Father. G1821 opens teaching on mission as movement initiated by a sender: God sends His Son and the Spirit of His Son, and the church sends Barnabas to examine and strengthen new gospel work.
It corrects self-appointed mission that lacks accountable sending and teaching that merges the Sons incarnation, the Spirits indwelling work, and the churchs delegated service into one undifferentiated action. G1821 gives sending a relational order: at the fullness of time God sends His Son under the law to redeem, then sends the Spirit of His Son into believers hearts because they are sons; in Acts, Jerusalem sends Barnabas to Antioch when news of Gentile grace arrives.
Divine initiative creates adoption and mission, while church sending remains responsive and accountable. For G1821, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable. G1821 does not make every journey a divine commission, authorize institutions to control workers as property, or erase the distinct persons and works of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
G1821 appears across passages that develop the sending of the Son and Spirit, church mission, protection, delegated service, and accountable dismissal. For G1821, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
When the fullness of time arrives, God sends His Son, born of a woman and under the law, to redeem those under the law.
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
Because believers are sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into their hearts, where the Spirit cries Abba, Father.
When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.
When the Jerusalem church hears about the gospel taking root in Antioch, it sends Barnabas to see the work and encourage the new believers.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Dispatching with purpose or authority, often involving separation or removal from a location.
Dispatching with purpose or authority, often involving separation or removal from a location.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
11 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I send forth
Read verseI send forth
Read verseI send forth
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 14 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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ἐξαποστέλλω is built from these roots:
G1821 gives sending a relational order: at the fullness of time God sends His Son under the law to redeem, then sends the Spirit of His Son into believers hearts because they are sons; in Acts, Jerusalem sends Barnabas to Antioch when news of Gentile grace arrives. Divine initiative creates adoption and mission, while church sending remains responsive and accountable.
G1821 describes sending someone or something out from a place and can name Gods sending of the Son and Spirit, the church sending a trusted servant, protective departure, mission, or dismissal empty-handed. The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Gal. 4. 4 shows that when the fullness of time arrives, God sends His Son, born of a woman and under the law, to redeem those under the law, while Gal.
4. 6 Shows that because believers are sons, God sends the Spirit of His Son into their hearts, where the Spirit cries Abba, Father. Acts. 11. 22 adds that when the Jerusalem church hears about the gospel taking root in Antioch, it sends Barnabas to see the work and encourage the new believers. G1821 opens teaching on mission as movement initiated by a sender: God sends His Son and the Spirit of His Son, and the church sends Barnabas to examine and strengthen new gospel work.
It corrects self-appointed mission that lacks accountable sending and teaching that merges the Sons incarnation, the Spirits indwelling work, and the churchs delegated service into one undifferentiated action. A church teaching G1821 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
G1821 does not make every journey a divine commission, authorize institutions to control workers as property, or erase the distinct persons and works of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Gal.4.4
G1821 is an intensified Greek sending verb that can mean send forth or send away; direct objects and destination phrases identify whether the movement is commission, dispatch, rescue, or dismissal.
God sends prophets, messengers, deliverance, judgment, and His word throughout the Old Testament. The New Testament centers this sending in the Fathers mission of the Son and Spirit and extends gospel service through churches that recognize, test, and support workers.