# πέμπω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

Unclear. Possibly Pre-Greek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pém.pɔː/ → /ˈpem.po/ → /ˈpem.bo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pém.pɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈpem.po/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈpem.po/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈpem.po/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈpem.bo/

### Verb

πέμπω • (pémpō)
* to send, dispatch
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.116:Ἕκτωρ δὲ προτὶ ἄστυ δύω κήρυκας ἔπεμπεHéktōr dè protì ástu dúō kḗrukas épempeAnd 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
** (with accusative of place)
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1770:Θήβας δ' ἡμᾶς / τὰς ὠγυγίους πέμψονThḗbas d' hēmâs / tàs ōgugíous pémpsonDispatch us to Ogygian Thebes
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 761
** (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
** (with infinitive of purpose)
*** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.575–576:οἱ δ’ ἅμ’ Ἀχιλλῆϊ ῥηξήνορι πέμπον ἕπεσθαι Ἴλιον εἰς εὔπωλονhoi d’ hám’ Akhillêï rhēxḗnori pémpon hépesthai Ílion eis eúpōlonThey 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
** to nominate
* 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
** 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
** (of words) to utter
*** 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 443
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 846
*** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1445
* 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
** (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
* 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
* to produce
** 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1162
* (middle voice) to send for
** 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 977
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 602
* (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

#### Derived terms

* ἀναπέμπω (anapémpō)
* ἀντιπέμπω (antipémpō)
* ἀποπέμπω (apopémpō)
* δῐᾰπέμπω (dĭăpémpō)
* εἰσπέμπω (eispémpō)
* ἐκπέμπω (ekpémpō)
* ἐπιπέμπω (epipémpō)
* Θεόπομπος (Theópompos)
* περιπέμπω (peripémpō)
* πομπεύς (pompeús)
* προπέμπω (propémpō)
* προσπέμπω (prospémpō)
* σῠμπέμπω (sŭmpémpō)
* συμπροπέμπω (sumpropémpō)
* ὑποπέμπω (hupopémpō)
* ψυχοπομπός (psukhopompós)

#### Related terms

* εὐπέμφελος (eupémphelos)
* πεμπτέος (pemptéos)
* πεμπτήρ (pemptḗr)
* πεμπτός (pemptós)
* πέμψῐς (pémpsĭs)
* πομπή (pompḗ)
* πομπός (pompós)

### Further reading

* “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

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέμπω.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpem.bo/
* Hyphenation: πέ‧μπω
* Hyphenation: πέμ‧πω

### Verb

πέμπω • (pémpo) active (past έπεμψα, passive πέμπομαι)
* (formal) to send
    Synonym: στέλνω (stélno)

#### Usage notes

* Ancient verb, chiefly found in compounds.

#### Related terms

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)