primarily, "to give out, give up, surrender" (ek, "out, from," didomi, "to give"), denotes "to let out for hire;" in the NT it is used, in the Middle Voice, with the meaning "to let out to one's advantage," in the parable of the husbandman and his vineyard, Matthew 21:33,41; Mark 12:1; Luke 20:9 , AV, "let ... forth;" RV, "let ... out."