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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...

pastoral function; one-third of the occurrences of elenchō are in the Pastoral Letters. See NIDNTT-A, 178–79. Verb: ἐπιτιμάω (epitimaō), GK 2203 (S 2008), 29×. epitimaō generally means “to rebuke.” Peter, for example, rebukes Jesus after he outlined his coming passion (Mt. 16:22). NT rebukes are uttered in a variety of contexts and with varying aims. Using rebukes, Jesus demonstrated his divinity and authority over the weather (8:26), demons (17:18), and illnesses (Lk. 4:39). Rebukes can also