Strong's #651: apostole (pronounced ap-os-tol-ay')

from 649; commission, i.e. (specially) apostolate:--apostleship.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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apostolē

1) a sending away

1a) of the sending off of a fleet

1b) of consuls with an army, i.e. of an expedition

2) a sending away, i.e. a dismissal, release

3) a thing sent, especially of gifts

4) in the NT, the office and dignity of the apostles of Christ, apostleship

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G649

Citing in TDNT: 1:446, 67

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Acts 1:25: "of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell,"
Romans 1:5: "we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among"
1 Corinthians 9:2: "the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord."
Galatians 2:8: "he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in"