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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: φείδομαι (pheidomai), GK 5767 (S 5339), 10×. pheidomai means “to spare.” Most uses of this verb have a frightening element to them. Twice Peter writes that if God did not “spare” the angels when they sinned or the rebellious people before the flood, he will eventually send the unrighteous into his final judgment (2 Pet. 2:4–5, 9; cf. also Rom. 11:21). Paul predicts a time when “savage wolves” will attach the church and not “spare” the flock (Acts 20:29). But the most blessed