'Appoint' in the Bible

Get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you [to serve] as a minister and as a witness [to testify, with authority,] not only to the things which you have seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you,

So if you have lawsuits dealing with matters of this life, are you appointing those as judges [to hear disputes] who are of no account in the church?

For this reason I left you behind in Crete, so that you would set right what remains unfinished, and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,