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Itching
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
"to scratch, tickle," is used in the Passive Voice, metaphorically, of an eagerness to hear, in 2 Timothy 4:3 , lit., "itched (as to the hearing)," of those who, not enduring sound doctrine, heap to themselves teachers.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Itching'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/i/itching.html. 1940.