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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...

“sinful” (7×) and as a noun to mean “sinner” (40×). As a noun, the word is mainly in the plural (30×). When hamartōlos is used as an adjective, it can refer to “a sinful generation” (Mk. 8:38), “a sinful life” (Lk. 7:37), “sinful sin” (Rom. 7:13), and “sinful men” (Lk. 24:7, 1 Tim. 1:9, Heb. 12:3). Peter once declared himself to be a “sinful man” in the presence of Christ (Lk. 5:8). As a noun, hamartōlos most frequently means “sinner.” In the gospels, Jesus said, “I have not come to call the righteous,