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To give heed (prosechein). With noun understood. Old and common idiom in N.T. especially in Luke and Acts (Act 8:10.). Not in Paul’s earlier Epistles. 1Ti 3:8; 1Ti 4:1, 1Ti 4:13; Tit 1:14.
To fables (muthois). Dative case of old word for speech, narrative, story, fiction, falsehood. In N.T. only 2Pe 1:16; 1Ti 1:4; 1Ti 4:7; Tit 1:14; 2Ti 4:4.
Genealogies (genealogiais). Dative of old word, in lxx, in N.T. only here and Tit 3:9.
Endless (aperantois). Old verbal compound (from a privative and perainō, to go through), in lxx, only here in N.T. Excellent examples there for old words used only in the Pastorals because of the subject matter, describing the Gnostic emphasis on aeons.
Questionings (ekzētēseis). “Seekings out.” Late and rare compound from ekzēteō (itself Koiné[28928]š word, Rom 3:11 from lxx and in papyri). Here only in N.T. Simplex zētēsis in Act 15:2; 1Ti 6:4; Tit 3:9; 2Ti 2:23.
A dispensation (oikonomian). Pauline word (1Co 9:17; Col 1:25; Eph 1:9; Eph 3:9; 1Ti 1:4), Luk 16:2-4 only other N.T. examples.
In faith (en pistei). Pauline use of pistis.