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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...

The very foundation of salvation is grounded in the realization that God’s unmerited love toward us is greater than any other power—including death (Rom. 8:37–39; 1 Cor. 15:55–57). See NIDNTT-A, 5–7. Verb: φιλέω (phileō), GK 5797 (S 5368), 25×. phileō is the common word in classical Gk. for showing love, affection, hospitality, etc. It comes into English in many words such as “Philadelphia” (the “city of brotherly love”). To make firm distinctions between phileō love and agapaō love is incorrect,
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