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dis -pach ´: Occurs Tobit 7:8 in the sense of dispatch of business, "Let this business be dispatched" (the Revised Version (British and American) "finished"); 2 Macc 12:18, "before he had dispatched anything" (the Revised Version (British and American) "without accomplishing"); The Wisdom of Solomon 11:19 (20) in the sense of finishing, destroying, "dispatch them at once" (the Revised Version (British and American) "consume"); 2 Macc 9:4 "dispatch the journey" (katanúein ), which may mean "finish it quickly." Revised Version (British and American) spells "despatch.»

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Dispatch'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/d/dispatch.html. 1915.

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