pempo describes dispatching people or other agents to a recipient, destination, or assigned purpose.

The occurrences chiefly describe sending people as envoys, messengers, helpers, or persons directed to a place or task. A common related use identifies a sender in relation to the person sent, especially where the Father is described as having sent Jesus and Jesus as sending others.

1. Dispatching persons for a destination or task · dominant

   Active forms describe directing persons to a recipient, place, or purpose: in Acts 10:5 the aorist active form occurs with men sent to Joppa, and in Acts 15:22 it accompanies the choice of men sent to Antioch. In 1 Thessalonians 3:2, the aorist active first-person plural form concerns Timothy's being sent to strengthen and encourage the recipients; Acts 20:17 similarly joins the aorist active participle with summoning the elders.

   Acts 10:5Acts 15:221 Thessalonians 3:2Acts 20:171 Corinthians 4:17Luke 15:15
2. Identifying the sender behind a mission · common

   Aorist active participles repeatedly identify the one who sent Jesus: in John 6:38 the clause contrasts doing his own will with doing the will of the one who sent him, while John 8:29 states that the sender is with him. The same sender-sent relation extends outward in John 20:21, where the present active first-person form places the disciples' sending alongside the Father's sending of Jesus.

   John 6:38John 8:29John 12:49John 13:16John 20:21John 15:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly uses “send,” “sent,” or “sending” for the movement or commissioning of a person. In some clauses it also frames the term through the relation of “the one who sent,”.