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For years, Vine’s Expository Dictionary has been the standard word study tool for pastors and laypeople, selling millions of copies. But sixty-plus years of scholarship has shed extensive new light on the use of biblical Greek and Hebrew, creating the need for a new, more accurate, more thorough dictionary of Bible words. William Mounce, whose Greek grammar has been used by more than 100,000...

Old Testament Verb: זָכַר (zākar), GK 2349 (S 2142), 235×. zākar means “to remember.” Remembering can occur with either God or human beings as the subject. Such memory can trigger many different reactions in the Bible (and in our own personal lives). (1) With humans as the subject, memory of certain things can bring about pain, such as the exiles remembering what life was like in Jerusalem (Ps. 137:1; Lam. 3:19–20) or the escaped Israelites remembering the good food they ate in Egypt (Num.