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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...

New Testament Noun: ὀφειλέτης (opheiletēs) GK 4050 (S 3781), 7×. opheiletēs means “debtor” or “one who is obligated” (see debtor). Paul feels an “obligation” from within himself to preach the gospel to both Jews and non-Jews (Rom. 1:14). In Gal. 5:3 Paul writes that if any believer feels he must be circumcised, then “he is under obligation to keep the whole law” (Gal 5:3). As Paul seeks to raise money among the Gentile churches for the impoverished Jews in Jerusalem, he writes that