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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...

sin, transgression,” the noun pešaʿ is one of the three primary words for sin in the OT. See sin. New Testament Noun: παράβασις (parabasis), GK 4126 (S 3847), 7×. parabasis means “transgression,” as in breaking a command of God’s law (Rom. 2:23; 5:14; Gal 3:19). Paul emphasizes especially that no transgression is possible if there is no law (Rom. 4:15; cf. also Heb. 2:2). Eve (and Adam too, of course) were both transgressors of God’s command in the Garden of Eden (cf. 1 Tim. 2:14). But through the