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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: σκανδαλίζω (skandalizō), GK 4997 (S 4624), 29×. In the active voice skandalizō means “to lead someone to sin or to fall away” from faith (see also offend). Jesus warns about people who would cause a little child to sin, and then about body parts that might cause a person to sin (Mt 18:6, 8–9). Causing someone to sin brings such serious judgment that it is better to be drowned or to mutilate yourself (18:8). While the metaphor is not meant to be taken literally, it is true