to order that something be done: to give a spoken command, on the strength of one's authority
This verb is the plain language of giving orders. Someone in a position of authority speaks, and by speaking sets an action in motion: a king, a governor, an army officer, or Jesus tells others to carry something out. The focus is on the authoritative word itself and the act it triggers, not on the moral weight of what is commanded.
In the New Testament it clusters in Matthew and especially Acts, where it repeatedly describes Roman officials directing their soldiers: a commander orders a prisoner bound, brought forward, or guarded. That everyday, official flavor is typical of the word. It was the ordinary term for an order in the legal and administrative documents of the day.
Because its meaning is so consistent, the word does not split into different senses. Every occurrence is one person with authority ordering that something be done, so a single sense covers them all.