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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...

pastors who “visit” and “take care of” their flock. At times the verb denotes a hospital or prison visit (Mt. 25:36, 43; Acts 7:23), but can also refer to serving widows (cf. serve [diakoneō]) and taking care of orphans (Jas. 1:27). Clearly, episkeptomai means more than just casually stopping by. Accordingly, the apostles choose men full of wisdom and the Spirit to do just that concerning the needy (Acts 6:3), and it was this verb that was the motive behind Paul’s second missionary journey (15:36).
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