μεταπέμπω
to send for
‘to send for’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 2 times (22%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
- Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3343 appears — 8 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 10:5 μετάπεμψαι aor mid.dep impv 2sg Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is surnamed Peter.
- Acts 10:22 μεταπέμψασθαί aor mid.dep inf They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say."
- Acts 10:29 μεταπεμφθείς μετεπέμψασθέ aor pass ptcp nom sg masc aor mid.dep ind 2pl Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"
- Acts 11:13 μετάπεμψαι aor mid.dep impv 2sg He told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying to him, 'Send to Joppa, and get Simon, whose surname is Peter,
- Acts 20:1 μεταπεμψάμενος aor mid.dep ptcp nom sg masc After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
- Acts 24:24 μετεπέμψατο aor mid.dep ind 3sg But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.
- Acts 24:26 μεταπεμπόμενος pres mid/pass.dep ptcp nom sg masc Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often, and talked with him.
- Acts 25:3 μεταπέμψηται aor mid.dep subj 3sg asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μεταπεμπω (metapémpō) means “to send for.” Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (100% of all occurrences). Spanning 8 verses in 1 book, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Acts 10:5. Catalogued under 3 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3343 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 8 verses 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Call for 2×, He sent for 2×
- American Standard Version: Fetch 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: He sent for 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Summon 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3343 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3343 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3343 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3343 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to send one after another
- like our send after i.e. to send for
- to send after for one's self, cause to be sent
Word origin
Derived from μετα (metá) (G3326) — with.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G3343 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μετάπεμψαι metápempsai | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Acts 10:5 | 2 |
| μεταπέμψασθαί metapémpsasthaí | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive | Acts 10:22 | 1 |
| μεταπέμψηται metapémpsētai | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 25:3 | 1 |
| μεταπεμπόμενος metapempómenos | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 24:26 | 1 |
| μεταπεμφθείς metapemphtheís | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 10:29 | 1 |
| μεταπεμψάμενος metapempsámenos | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 20:1 | 1 |
| μετεπέμψασθέ metepémpsasthé | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural | Acts 10:29 | 1 |
| μετεπέμψατο metepémpsato | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Acts 24:24 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3343, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- μεθερμηνευω methermēneúō G3177 to interpret
- μεθιστημι methístēmi G3179 to transfer
- μεθοδεια methodeía G3180 deceit
- μεθοριος methórios G3181 border
- μεσος mésos G3319 middle
- μεταβαινω metabaínō G3327 to pass over
- μεταβαλλω metabállō G3328 to turn around
- μεταγω metágō G3329 to transfer
- μεταδιδωμι metadídōmi G3330 to impart
- μεταιρω metaírō G3332 to remove
- μετακαλεω metakaléō G3333 to summon
- μετακινεω metakinéō G3334 to move away
- μεταλαμβανω metalambánō G3335 to partake
- μεταλλασσω metallássō G3337 to exchange
- μεταμελλομαι metaméllomai G3338 it is a care
- μεταμορφοω metamorphóō G3339 to transform
- μετανοεω metanoéō G3340 to repent
- μεταξυ metaxý G3342 between
- μεταστρεφω metastréphō G3344 to turn around
- μετασχηματιζω metaschēmatízō G3345 to transform
- μετατιθημι metatíthēmi G3346 to transpose
- μετεπειτα metépeita G3347 afterwards
- μετεχω metéchō G3348 to partake
- μετεωριζω meteōrízō G3349 to be puffed up
+2 more words share this root (not shown).
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 28 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μεταπεμπω appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:45 μεταπέμπω
- Numbers 23:7 μεταπέμπω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3343) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 27:45 μεταπέμπω until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Numbers 23:7 μεταπέμπω He took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, Come, defy Israel.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3343) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
