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the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Beam
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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"a beam," is perhaps etymologically connected with the root dek---, seen in the word dechomai, "to receive," "beams" being received at their ends into walls or pieces of timber. The Lord used it metaphorically, in contrast to a mote, "of a great fault, or vice," Matthew 7:3-5; Luke 6:41,42 .
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Beam'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​b/beam.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Beam'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​b/beam.html. 1940.