To help on the way
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G4311 describes sending someone forward on a journey, accompanying travelers toward departure, or equipping them for the road. Its nine governed forms include churches sending delegates, friends walking with Paul to the shore, congregations helping ministers continue, and instructions to provide for coworkers so they lack nothing.
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G4311 describes sending someone forward on a journey, accompanying travelers toward departure, or equipping them for the road. Its nine governed forms include churches sending delegates, friends walking with Paul to the shore, congregations helping ministers continue, and instructions to provide for coworkers so they lack nothing.
The BSB source-word alignment has 9 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include accompanied (1), can help (1), help me on my way (1), Send (1), Sent on their way (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 15:3. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (3), 1 Corinthians (2), 2 Corinthians (1), 3 John (1).
G4311 describes sending someone forward on a journey, accompanying travelers toward departure, or equipping them for the road. Its nine governed forms include churches sending delegates, friends walking with Paul to the shore, congregations helping ministers continue, and instructions to provide for coworkers so they lack nothing. The verb joins farewell, hospitality, material assistance, companionship, and accountable partnership without making every occurrence specify the same form or amount of support.
Acts 15:3 places the sending inside a church mission, while Acts 20:38 and 21:5 show relational accompaniment at painful departures. Paul's letters ask congregations to help him, Timothy, Zenas, and Apollos onward. Third John praises help given in a manner worthy of God to traveling brothers who went out for the Name. These passages commend generous participation in gospel work, but they do not create an unlimited entitlement to money, secrecy, access, or unquestioning endorsement.
Sending well can include prayer, food, lodging, funds, introductions, transport, and companionship as the actual journey requires. Responsible support also includes truthful communication, financial transparency, appropriate screening, consent, care for dependents, legal and travel safety, and freedom to decline a request. A sender serves the traveler and the mission under God; giving does not purchase control, and a spiritual claim does not suspend stewardship or safeguarding.
Nine governed forms move through church commissioning, practical help, escort, farewell, missionary support, and hospitality for traveling coworkers.
Sent on their way by the church
The church participates in a recognized mission by helping the travelers continue.
You can equip me for my journey
Practical support serves a proposed next stage of mission after fellowship.
Send them on their way in a manner worthy of God
Hospitality becomes forward-looking partnership in faithful service.
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Greek word. Active community support for a traveler's journey, often implying material aid and escort.
Active community support for a traveler's journey, often implying material aid and escort.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
9 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 9 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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προπέμπω is built from these roots:
To send forward is to help a real person take the next faithful step. Sometimes that means walking to the shore, sometimes supplying a need, and sometimes welcoming a worker before departure. The passages honor generosity without erasing discernment. A congregation may ask what the mission is, who is accountable, how funds will be used, what dependents and vulnerable people need, and whether the plan is safe.
Those questions can serve the same love that gives. The worker is not a product, the donor is not an owner, and the church's support remains service under Christ. Healthy sending also receives truthful reports, adapts when plans change, and refuses to hide exhaustion or danger behind heroic ministry language. It sustains both mission and ordinary creaturely limits.
3John.1.6
Eight morphology labels account for the nine governed forms. Active commands and a subjunctive request direct people to send or equip, passive infinitives describe receiving help, and participles or an imperfect form place accompaniment inside larger scenes. Voice and aspect describe presentation, but they do not determine the amount, funding model, authority structure, or moral quality of support.
Israel's hospitality, provision for travelers, care for resident strangers, and accountable support for priestly and prophetic service provide themes rather than a direct lexical chain. The New Testament centers this help on truthful partnership in the mission of Christ.
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