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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...

pastor, Timothy is to “teach gently those who disagree” with him (2 Tim. 2:25), while the blasphemers Hymenaeus and Alexander require not gentleness but harsh discipline in order to “be taught” their lesson. The grace of God in salvation also “teaches” us to live pious, godly lives (Tit. 2:12). paideuō is used twice to mean actual punishment, when Pilate declares he will “punish” Jesus, then release him (Lk. 23:16, 22). Paul uses the word to mean severely beaten down: “beaten but not killed” (2