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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 Verb: ποιμήν (poimēn), GK 4478 (S 4166), 18×. A poimēn is a “shepherd,” a person who tends a flock. In Eph. 4:11, this word is often translated “pastors.” The English word “pastor” is derived from the Latin word pascere, which means “to feed” (Middle English, pastour). See shepherd.