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Hebrews 3

Heb. 3:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But
de (Greek #1161)
but, and, etc.
KJV usage: also, and, but, moreover, now (often unexpressed in English).
Pronounce: deh
Origin: a primary particle (adversative or continuative)
with whom
tis (Greek #5101)
an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
KJV usage: every man, how (much), + no(-ne, thing), what (manner, thing), where (-by, -fore, -of, -unto, - with, -withal), whether, which, who(-m, -se), why.
Pronounce: tis
Origin: probably emphatic of 5100
was he grieved
prosochthizo (Greek #4360)
to feel indignant at
KJV usage: be grieved at.
Pronounce: pros-okh-thid'-zo
Origin: from 4314 and a form of ὀχθέω (to be vexed with something irksome)
forty
tessarakonta (Greek #5062)
forty
KJV usage: forty.
Pronounce: tes-sar-ak'-on-tah
Origin: the decade of 5064
years
etos (Greek #2094)
a year
KJV usage: year.
Pronounce: et'-os
Origin: apparently a primary word
? was it not
ouchi (Greek #3780)
not indeed
KJV usage: nay, not.
Pronounce: oo-khee'
Origin: intensive of 3756
with them that had sinned
hamartano (Greek #264)
properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e. (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin
KJV usage: for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.
Pronounce: ham-ar-tan'-o
Origin: perhaps from 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 3313
, whose
hos (Greek #3739)
the relatively (sometimes demonstrative) pronoun, who, which, what, that
KJV usage: one, (an-, the) other, some, that, what, which, who(-m, -se), etc. See also 3757.
Pronounce: hos
Origin: ἥ (hay), and neuter ὅ (ho) probably a primary word (or perhaps a form of the article 3588)
carcases
ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
kolon (Greek #2966)
a limb of the body (as if lopped)
KJV usage: carcase.
Pronounce: ko'-lon
Origin: from the base of 2849
d fell
pipto (Greek #4098)
(which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses); probably akin to 4072 through the idea of alighting; to fall (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: fail, fall (down), light on.
Pronounce: pip'-to
Origin: πέτω (pet'-o)
in
en (Greek #1722)
"in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
KJV usage: about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (... sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
Pronounce: en
Origin: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537)
the wilderness
eremos (Greek #2048)
lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, 5561 being implied)
KJV usage: desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
Pronounce: er'-ay-mos
Origin: of uncertain affinity
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ho (Greek #3588)
the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom)
KJV usage: the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: ἡ (hay), and the neuter τό (to) in all their inflections
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Num. 26:64‑65•  (Num. 26:64‑65)
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Jude 5• 5But I would remind you, though once for all knowing all things, that [the] Lord having saved a people out of Egypt's land, in the second place destroyed those that believed not. (Jude 5)

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Ministry on This Verse

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with him.
Heb. 3:10• 10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation and said, They always err in their heart, and they knew not my ways: (Heb. 3:10)
was it.
Num. 26:64‑65•  (Num. 26:64‑65)
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1 Cor. 10:1‑13• 1For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea,
 2and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea,
 3and all ate the same spiritual meat,
 4and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they were drinking of a spiritual attendant rock (and the rock was Christ);
 5but in the most of them God had no pleasure, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
 6But these things happened as types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, even as they also lusted.
 7Neither be ye idolaters, even as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
 8Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand.
 9Neither let us tempt the Lord, even as some of them tempted, and were perishing by the serpents.
 10Neither murmur ye, according as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
 11Now all these things happened unto them typically, and were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have reached.
 12So then let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
 13No temptation hath taken you save a human one: but God [is] faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the issue that ye may be able to bear [it]. (1 Cor. 10:1‑13)
whose.
Num. 14:22,29,32‑33•  (Num. 14:22,29,32‑33)
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Deut. 2:15‑16•  (Deut. 2:15‑16)
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Jer. 9:22•  (Jer. 9:22)
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Jude 5• 5But I would remind you, though once for all knowing all things, that [the] Lord having saved a people out of Egypt's land, in the second place destroyed those that believed not. (Jude 5)
• It was no mere sudden slip, but the grave evil of habitual state that aroused His strong displeasure; in fact, the whole period of His unparalleled intervention in the wilderness, where their stay gave occasion to His constant and wondrous tokens of mercy before all eyes. (“Hebrews 3:14-19” by W. Kelly)
• {v.17-18} Then referring again to Israel in the wilderness, the writer asks three searching questions to bring out the hardness, sin and unbelief of Israel. (“The Wilderness That Calls for the Service of Christ: Hebrews 3:7-19” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcasesa fell in the wilderness?

JND Translation Notes

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a
Lit. "limbs." often used for a carcase. Some suppose the idea of the body falling to pieces.

W. Kelly Translation

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And with whom was he wroth forty years? [Was it] not with those that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?