UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: verb

Inflections: καταστρώννυμι; aor.pass.; κατεστρώθην

Related lemmas: στρώννυμι

Sense 1: to kill

Semantic entry: 20.63

Semantic domains: Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill

Subdomains: Kill

Definition: (a figurative extension of meaning of καταστρώννυμι ‘to spread out,’ not occurring in the NT) to cause the death of a number of persons, with the implication of bodies spread out over an area

Notes: It is also possible to understand this expression in OET CO1 10:5 as meaning that the individuals died and that their bodies were strewn over the desert.

Show passage in OET: CO1 10:5

OET-RV CO1 10:5

5 Despite that, God wasn’t very happy with most of them, and they ended up dying in the wilderness.

OET-LV CO1 10:5

5 But not with the more of _them took _pleasure the god, because/for they _were _struck _down in the wilderness.

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

καταστρώννυμι

Form 1

Sense 1: to kill