to send something to a place by throwing it or by setting it down: cast, throw, or put
This one word covers the whole range from a hard, fast throw to a quiet placing of something where it belongs. What ties the senses together is the picture of an object leaving the hand and arriving somewhere else. The force is supplied by the situation, not by the word itself: the same verb hurls a stone, drops coins into a collection box, and lays a sick person on a bed.
Because of that range, the right English word shifts with the scene. Where there is violence or speed, it is throw or cast (stones, lots, a body into prison or fire). Where the action is calm, it is put, pour, or lay (wine into skins, water into a basin, a finger into a wound). Translators choose the English word from the context, but the Greek is making one consistent gesture underneath them all.
The word also moves easily into figurative speech. Jesus came to bring a sword rather than peace, fire is cast on the earth, and love drives out fear. In each case the literal image of sending something to a place is carried over into something that cannot be physically thrown.