apostolas

Strong’sG651

commission, duty of apostle, apostleship

stem apostol-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀπο-στολή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< ἀποστέλλω), [in LXX: De 22:7, III Ki 4:34 9:16, Ps 77 (78):49, Ec 8:8, Ca 4:13 (for שׁלח and its cognates), I Es 9:51, 54, Je 39 (32):36, Ba 2:25, I Mac 2:18, II Mac 3:2*.]

1. In cl., a sending away (MM, s.v.), as, an expedition (Hdt.).

2. In LXX

(a) discharge, dismissal (Ec 8:8);

(b) a gift (III Ki 9:16, I Mac 2:13).

3. In NT, the office of an Apostle of Christ, apostleship: Ac 1:25, Ro 1:5, I Co 9:2, Ga 2:8 (Cremer, 530).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G651 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidap-os-tol-ay'

commission, i.e. (specially) apostolate

Fromfrom G649;

King Jamesapostleship.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀποστολ-ή, ἡ,
(ἀποστέλλω) sending off or away, Refs 5th c.BC+; dispatching, νεῶνRefs 5th c.BC+; sending forth on their journey, ξένων ὑποδοχὰς καὶ ἀ.Refs 4th c.BC+as a parting gift, LXX
2 shooting, discharge, βέλουςRefs 3rd c.BC+
3 discharge from service, οὐκ ἔστιν ἀ. ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμουLXX
4 payment of tribute, Refs 4th c.AD+
II (from passive) expedition, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 apostleship, NT

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

apostleship4×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	apostolas	apostolais
object accusative	apostolan2×ἀποστολὴν	apostolain
direct address vocative	apostolar	apostolair
of, belonging to genitive	apostolau2×ἀποστολῆς	apostolaiu
to, for dative	apostola	apostolai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

apostolstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

apostola is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

apostolos — ἀπόστολος, an apostle, a messenger, an envoy, a delegate

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

apostolan“apostleship”objectaccusative singular2×

Romans 1:5dia hou labana charitan kai apostolan eis hupakoan pistiau en pantei tei …… His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the …

Galatians 2:8tos gar energarantos Petro eis apostolan tau peritomau energata kai mi eis …… who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at …

apostolau“apostleship”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Acts 1:25… ton topon tau diakoniau houtau kai apostolau, apo hau parabainata Ioudos poreuira eis …to take up this ministry and apostleship, which Judas abandoned to go to …

1 Corinthians 9:2… amō, tas gar sfragidas mu tau apostolau vis avō en kurio.… you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.