epitrepo describes granting authorization for someone to speak, act, go, remain, or do a specified thing.

The occurrences consistently depict authorization being granted, requested, withheld, or made conditional: people ask to speak, depart, bury a father, or take a body; authorities allow actions; and planned action is conditioned on the Lord or God allowing it.

1. Granting or withholding authorization · dominant

   Across the cited clauses, the verb concerns whether a requested or proposed action may proceed. In Acts 21:39 the request is to speak to the people, and in Acts 21:40 the officer's granting of it precedes Paul's address; in Luke 9:59 and Matthew 8:21 the request concerns going away to bury a father. The same authorization frame appears when Pilate grants Joseph's request in John 19:38 and when future plans depend on the Lord or God allowing them in 1 Corinthians 16:7 and Hebrews 6:3.

   Acts 21:39Acts 21:40Luke 9:59Matthew 8:21John 19:381 Corinthians 16:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the authorization frame with “permit,” “permitted,” “allowed,” “let,” and “gave them permission.” Those English choices show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed translations of each form.