πέμπω

Unclear. Possibly Pre-Greek.

πέμπω • (pémpō)

1. to send, dispatch
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.116:

     Ἕκτωρ δὲ προτὶ ἄστυ δύω κήρυκας ἔπεμπε

     Héktōr dè protì ástu dúō kḗrukas épempe

     And Hector dispatched two heralds to the city.

   • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 34
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 739
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.15
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 506
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1308
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.129
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.25
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 310d
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 2 Esdras 4.14
   1. (with accusative of place)
      • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1770:

        Θήβας δ' ἡμᾶς / τὰς ὠγυγίους πέμψον

        Thḗbas d’ hēmâs / tàs ōgugíous pémpson

        Dispatch us to Ogygian Thebes

      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 761
   2. (with adverbs)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.445:

        αἴ κε ζὼν πέμψῃς Σαρπηδόνα ὃνδε δόμονδε, (...)

        aí ke zṑn pémpsēis Sarpēdóna hònde dómonde, (...)

        If you send Sarpedon to his house alive, (...)

      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.452
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 9.461
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.281
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.418
   3. (with infinitive of purpose)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.575–576:

        οἱ δ’ ἅμ’ Ἀχιλλῆϊ ῥηξήνορι πέμπον ἕπεσθαι
        Ἴλιον εἰς εὔπωλον

        hoi d’ hám’ Akhillêï rhēxḗnori pémpon hépesthai
        Ílion eis eúpōlon

        They dispatched [him] alongside Achilles, breaker of ranks, to accompany [him]
        to Ilion, abounding in foals

      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.8
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.396
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 24.419
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 406
   4. to nominate
2. to send forth; to dismiss
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.780
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.5
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.227
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.74
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.315
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1518
   1. to discharge, shoot
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 716
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 1005
      • 346 CE – c. 414 CE, Eunapius, Lives of the Sophists 495B
   2. (of words) to utter
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 443
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 846
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1445
3. to conduct, escort
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.390
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.203
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 12
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 571
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 133
   1. (with πομπήν (pompḗn)) to conduct or take part in (a procession)
      • 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 434
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.49
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.56
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.56
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Agoratus 80
      • 391 BCE, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 757
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 3.3.12
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 26
      • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 494
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 32
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Demetrius 12
      • 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.22
4. to send as a gift
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.623
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 16.83
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1429
   • 484 BCE – 425 BCE, Herodotus, 7 106
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.42
5. to produce
   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1162
6. (middle voice) to send for
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 977
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 602
7. (middle voice) to send in one's service; to cause to be sent
   • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 556
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Toxaris 14

• “πέμπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέμπω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πέμπω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πέμπω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• πέμπω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πέμπω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3992 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

From Ancient Greek πέμπω.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpem.bo/
• Hyphenation: πέ‧μπω
• Hyphenation: πέμ‧πω

πέμπω • (pémpo) active (past έπεμψα, passive πέμπομαι)

1. (formal) to send

   Synonym: στέλνω (stélno)

• Ancient verb, chiefly found in compounds.

Compounds (& see their derivatives)

• αναπέμπω (anapémpo, “remit”)
• αποπέμπω (apopémpo, “expel”)
• εκπέμπω (ekpémpo, “transmit, broadcast, emit”)
• επανεκπέμπω (epanekpémpo, “transmit again”)
• παραπέμπω (parapémpo, “refer”)

Other:

• αποδιοπομπαίος (apodiopompaíos, “outcast”)
• αυτοκινητοπομπή f (aftokinitopompí)
• διαπόμπευση f (diapómpefsi)
• διαπομπεύω (diapompévo)
• εφοδιοπομπή f (efodiopompí)
• θερμοπομπός m (thermopompós)
• νεκροπομπός m (nekropompós)
• νηοπομπή f (niopompí)
• πόμπευμα n (pómpevma)
• πομπεύω (pompévo)
• πομπή f (pompí, “procession”)
• πομπικός (pompikós)
• πομποδέκτης m (pompodéktis)
• πομπός m (pompós, “transmitter”)
• πομπώδης (pompódis)
• προπομπός m (propompós, “forerunner”)
• ραδιοπομπός m (radiopompós)
• ψυχοπομπός m (psychopompós, “soul-guiding”)
• θεόπεμπτος (theópemptos, “godsent”)
• ουρανόπεμπτος (ouranópemptos)