anapempo describes sending a person back, whether to an earlier authority, to a recipient, or onward to Caesar.

The attested use describes sending a person back or transferring that person to another party: Jesus is sent between Pilate and Herod, a man is sent back to a recipient, and Paul is to be sent to Caesar.

1. Sending a person back or on to another party · dominant

   The aorist active forms describe transfers of a person: in Luke 23:7 the APB renders the clause “he sent him to Herod,” while Luke 23:11 and Luke 23:15 render Herod's action as sending him back. In Philemon 1:12 the first-person form concerns sending a man back to the addressee, and in Acts 25:21 the subjunctive occurs in the plan to send Paul to Caesar.

   Acts 25:21Luke 23:11Luke 23:15Luke 23:7Philemon 1:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the action as “sent him to Herod,” “sent him back,” “sending him back to you,” and “send him to Caesar.” These renderings show the verse-level transfer rather than fixing a separate meaning for each wording.