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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.” Used figuratively, this term means that someone has stepped outside the bounds of God’s law. This word derives from para, a preposition meaning alongside or outside, and piptō, meaning to fall or collapse. While in classical Greek paraptōma meant a mere oversight or unintentional mistake, in the LXX it expresses conscious and deliberate sin against God. In the NT most occurrences of paraptōma are in the writings of Paul (e.g., Rom. 4:25; 5:15–18; Eph. 1:7; 2:1, 5), where the
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