Quick Definition
ἀναπέμπω v. I send up to a higher tribunal, I send back
Strong's Definition
from 303 and 3992; to send up or back
KJV Usage: send (again)
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | πέμπω
15.70 · Linear Movement · Leave, Depart, Flee, Escape, Send
to send back to send back to a previous location
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀνα-πέμπω : 1 aor. ἀνέπεμψα:; [fr. Pind. and Aeschyl. | down]; 1. to send up; i.e. a. toa higher place; b. to a person higher in office, authority, power, (Plut. Marius c. 17; [Philo de creat. princip. § 8; Joseph. b. j. 2, 20, 5]): τινὰ πρός τινα, Lk. xxiii. 7, 15; Acts xxv. 21 LTTrWH. 42. to send back: twa, Philem. 12 (11); τινά τινι, Lk. xxiii. 11.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀναπέμπω anapempō 5x
to send back, Phlm. 12; to send up, remit to a tribunal, Lk. 23:7, 11, 15; Acts 25:21*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ἀνα-πέμπω to send up, to a higher place (Æsch., Plat., al.);
to a higher authority (Deiss., BS, 229; MM, VGT, s.v.; cf. also Field, Notes, 140): Lk 23:7, 15, Ac 25:21.
to send back (Pind.): Lk 23:11, Phm 11.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀναπέμπω. To Deissmann’s examples of this word (SS p. 229) = “‘remittere,” ‘to send up to a higher authority,” as in Lk 237, Ac 2521, add P Hib I. 571 (B.c. 247), Sy// 1775410" (end of iii/B.c.), OGZS 194% (i/p.c.), 76. 329°! (ii/B.c.). Priene 11147 (i/B.c.) περὶ ὧν ὁ στρατηγὸς Λεύκιος Λε[υκίλιος ἔγραψεν] καὶ ἀνέπεμψεν [πρὸς τὴν σ]ύγκλητον, P Tebt I. 77 (B.C. 114), τό. II. 287° (A.D. 161-9) ἐνέτυχον τῷ ἡγεμόνι καὶ ἀνέπεμψεν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ Κρασσὸν τὸν κράτιστον [ἐπιστράτηὙ]ον, ‘‘they appealed to the prefect, who referred them to his highness the epistrategus Crassus” (Edd.), zd. 594 (iii/a.p ) a warrant for arrest, a/. Similarly the phrase ἐξ ἀναπομπῆς is used of the ‘‘ delegation” of a case from one authority to another, e. g. BGU I. 19? (a.D. 135), CPR 18? (A.D. 124) : see further drvchzzv iii. p. 74. For the alternative meaning “to send back” (Lk 2315, Philem™). Cf. P Par 137? (B.C. 157) οὐκ ἀναπέμψαντες τὴν φερνήν, P Oxy VII. 1032°° (A.D. 162) ἀνέπεμψεν kal τοῦτο ἐπί σε.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀναπέμπω (anapempō) — to send back. ἀναπέμπω, poetry ἀμπ-, send up, κάτωθεν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἁφαίστοιο κρουνοὺς ἀ. sends forth.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χθὼν ἠρινὰ φύλλ᾽ ἀ.[Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, send up from oneself, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. send up to higher ground, εἰς τὰς ἄκρας[Refs]; especially from the coast inland, into Central Asia, ἀ. ὡς βασιλέα[Refs 5th c.BC+]; to the metropolis, εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην[Refs 2nd c.BC+]
3. remit, refer to higher authority, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ψήφισμα πρὸς βασιλέα[NT]; of a higher authority referring to delegates, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; refer to a book, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. trace up one's pedigree, γένος εἴς τινα[Refs 1st c.BC+]
5. transmit, in passive, τῶν κατ᾽ ὄψιν ἀναπεμπομένων[Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. send back, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, send back in discussion to something previously said, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
II.2. refer, τὰ εἰς τὸ θεἰον -όμενα[Refs 1st c.BC+]; ascribe, τι ἐπί τι[Refs 5th c.AD+]
II.3. throw back the accent, of enclitics, Hdn.Gr.2.828.