ἐξαποστέλλω

Luke 1:53 ἐξαπέστειλεν He has sent away

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

Here: "He sent away": dismissing someone from your presence. The picture is a patron's door, where some callers are fed and others are sent off without receiving anything.

Luke 20:10 ἐξαπέστειλαν sent away

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

Here: 'They sent [him] away.' It is a bitter echo of the owner's 'he sent' (apesteilen) earlier in the verse. The owner sent the slave to them with a commission, and they sent him off again with nothing, throwing the owner's authority back in his face.

Luke 20:11 ἐξαπέστειλαν they sent away

So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

Acts 7:12 ἐξαπέστειλεν he sent forth

When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers on their first visit.

Here: 'He sent off.' A double-compound verb (out + away + send) for sending someone off on a task, here a journey to buy food. It is a word Luke likes.

Acts 9:30 ἐξαπέστειλαν sent away

When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

Acts 11:22 ἐξαπέστειλαν they sent forth

When news of this reached the ears of the church in Jerusalem, they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

Acts 12:11 ἐξαπέστειλεν has sent forth

Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent His angel and rescued me from Herod’s grasp and from everything the Jewish people were anticipating.”

Here: 'Sent out', with a doubled prefix (ex- 'out' plus apo- 'away'). It stresses that the angel was sent on a mission. In the Greek Old Testament (the Septuagint) this verb is used for God sending agents and for Pharaoh 'sending out' Israel.

Acts 13:26 ἐξαπεστάλη. was sent out.

Brothers, children of Abraham, and you Gentiles who fear God, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent.

Here: Aorist passive, "was sent out." The sender goes unnamed but is clearly God. The verb treats the message like an envoy sent out on a mission.

Acts 17:14 ἐξαπέστειλαν sent away

The brothers immediately sent Paul to the coast, but Silas and Timothy remained in Berea.

Acts 22:21 ἐξαποστελῶ will send

Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

Here: Future tense: 'I will send out.' The verb is built on 'send' (stellō) with two prefixes meaning 'out' and 'away,' and it belongs to the same family as 'apostle' (apostolos, 'one sent'). In the Greek Old Testament it is a verb God uses when he commissions people. Here it amounts to Jesus commissioning Paul himself.

Galatians 4:4 ἐξαπέστειλεν sent forth

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

Here: 'Sent out from', a stronger form of the ordinary verb for sending a messenger or envoy. God dispatched his Son on a mission. Paul uses the same verb in verse 6 for God sending 'the Spirit of his Son'.

Galatians 4:6 ἐξαπέστειλεν sent forth

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Here: "Sent out" on a mission from the sender's presence. It is the same verb, in the same form, as v.4's "God sent forth his Son", so the verse pairs two sendings: first the Son, then the Spirit of the Son.