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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...

sin, transgression,” the noun pešaʿ is one of the three primary words for sin in the OT. See sin. New Testament Noun: πρόσκομμα (proskomma), GK 4682 (S 4348), 6×. proskommā means “stumbling block, offense.” See stumbling block. Noun: σκάνδαλον (skandalon), GK 4998 (S 4625), 15×. skandalon is something that leads a person to sin or to fall away from faith, particularly offenses caused by Jesus (See also cause of sin, obstacle). A crucified Christ is an offense to the Jews (1 Cor. 1:23), because