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one sent as a messenger, or agent, the bearer of a commission, messenger, Jn. 13:16; an apostle, Mt. 10:2

a sending, expedition; office, or duty of one sent as a messenger or agent; office of an apostle, apostleship, Acts 1:25; Rom. 1:5; 1 Cor. 9:2; Gal. 2:8*

to deprive, detach; to debar, 1 Cor. 7:5; to deprive in a bad sense, defraud, Mk. 10:19; 1 Cor. 6:7; mid. to suffer one's self to be deprived or defrauded, 1 Cor. 6:8; pass.

to send forth, a messenger, agent, message, or command, Mt. 2:16; 10:5; to put forth into action, Mk. 4:29; to liberate, rid, Lk. 4:19; to dismiss, send away, Mk. 12:3

to remove, or break through a covering or roof of a place, Mk. 2:4*

defection, desertion, as of a freedman from a patron; in NT the act of putting away a wife, repudiation, divorce, Mt. 19:7; Mk. 10:4; meton. a bill of repudiation, deed of divorce, Mt. 5:31*

a falling away, a rebellion, apostasy, Acts 21:21; 2 Thess. 2:3*

to draw away from; to draw out, or forth, Mt. 26:51; to draw away, seduce, Acts 20:30; to separate one's self, to part, Lk. 22:41; Acts 21:1*