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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...

Old Testament Verb: מָאֲס (māʾas), GK 4415 (S 3988a), 74×. māʾas, usually translated “to reject” and occasionally “to despise,” expresses the action of rejecting someone or something. It is often found in a covenant context, where God’s people are rejecting him or he is rejecting them. The OT portrays Israel’s sinful and idolatrous ways in terms of rejecting God again and again. First-generation Israelites in the wilderness “reject” the promised land (Num. 14:31; cf. Ps. 106:24) and even
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