Quick Definition
I send up to a higher tribunal, I send back
Strong's Definition
to send up or back
Derivation: from G303 (ἀνά) and G3992 (πέμπω);
KJV Usage: send (again)
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀναπέμπω: 1 aorist ἀνέπεμψά; (from Pindar and Aesehyl. down);
1. to send up; i. e.
a. to a higher place;
b. to a person higher in office, authority, power (Plutarch, Marius c. 17; (Philo de creat. princip. § 8; Josephus, b. j. 2, 20, 5)): τινα πρός τινα, Luk_23:7; Luk_23:15; Act_25:21 L T Tr WH.
2. to send back: τινα Phm_1:12 (11); τινα τίνι, Luk_23:11.
STRONGS NT 375a: ἀναπηδάωἀναπηδάω: (1 aor participle ἀναπηδήσας); (Homer, Iliad 11, 379; often in Plato, Xenophon, Demosthenes); to leap up, spring up, start up: ἀναπηδήσας, Mar_10:50 L T Tr WH; cf. Fritzsche at the passage (1Sa_20:34; Pro_18:4 (Ald., etc.); Tob_2:4 Tob_6:3 Tob_7:6.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναπέμπω anapempō 5x
to send back, Phm_1:12 ; to send up, remit to a tribunal, Luk_23:7 ; Luk_23:11 ; Luk_23:15 ; Act_25:21
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀνα -πέμτω ,
1. to send up,
(a) to a higher place (Ζsch ., Plat ., al. );
(b) to a higher authority ( Deiss., BS , 229; MM , VGT , s.v. ; cf. also Field, Notes , 140): Luk_23:7 ; Luk_23:15 , Act_25:21 .
2. to send back ( Pind .): Luk_23:11 , Phm_1:11 . †
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναπέμπω [page 37]
To Deissmann s examples of this word ( BS p. 229) = remittere, to send up to a higher authority, as in Luk_23:7 , Act_25:21 , add P Hib I. 57 .1 (B.C. 247), Syll 177 .51, .107 (end of iii/B.C.), OGIS 194 .28 (i/B.C.), ib. 329 .51 (ii/B.C.), Priene 111 .147 (i/B.C.) περὶ ὧν ὁ στρατηγὸς Λεύκιος Λε [υκίλιος ἔγραψεν ] καὶ ἀνέπεμψεν [πρὸς τὴν σ ]ύγκλητον , P Tebt I. 7 .7 (B.C. 114), ib II. 287 .6 (A.D. 161 9) ἐνέτυχον τῷ ἡγεμόνι καὶ ἀνέπεμψεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ Κρασσὸν τὸν κράτιστον [ἐπιστράτηγ ]ον , they appealed to the prefect, who referred them to his highness the epistrategus Crassus (Edd.), ib. 594 (iii/A.D.) a warrant for arrest, al. Similarly the phrase ἐξ ἀναπομπῆς is used of the delegation of a case from one authority to another, e.g.BGU I. 19 .2 (A.D. 135), CPR 18 .2 (A.D. 124) : see further Archiv iii. p. 74. For the alternative meaning to send back ( Luk_23:15 , Phm_1:12 ). Cf. P Par 13 .22 (B.C. 157) οὐκ ἀναπέμψαντες τὴν φερνήν , P Oxy VII. 1032 .50 (A.D. 162) ἀνέπεμψεν καὶ τοῦτο ἐπί σε .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἀναπέμπω "to send up" from below, Aesch. : "to send forth", Pind. :—Mid. "to send up from oneself", Xen. "to send up", from the coast inland, esp. into Central Asia, Thuc. , Xen. "to send back", Pind.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-πέμπω
__1. to send up,
__(a) to a higher place (Æsch., Plat., al.);
__(b) to a higher authority (Deiss., BS, 229; MM, VGT, see word; cf. also Field, Notes, 140): Luk.23:7, 15, Act.25:21.
__2. to send back (Pind.): Luk.23:11, Phm 11.†
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