UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: In earlier Greek κῶλον designated a limb, but in the NT it occurs only in the plural and means corpses.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: κῶλον; -ου

Sense 1: dead body, corpse

Semantic entry: 8.8

Semantic domains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products

Subdomains: Body

Definition: the dead body of a person, especially one which is still unburied{N:001}

Notes: Though in OET HEB 3:17 the Greek text reads literally ‘whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness,’ it would normally be a mistake to translate this clause literally, since it might suggest that the people died while they were still standing, and that only the corpses fell. A more natural equivalent is ‘they died in the wilderness’ or ‘they died and their bodies lay in the wilderness.’

Show passage in OET: HEB 3:17

OET-RV HEB 3:17

17 Who was he angry with for forty years? Wasn’t it the people who disobeyed God and who died there in the wilderness?

OET-LV HEB 3:17

17 And with _whom _all he _was _angry for _forty years?
Not was _it with _the ones having _sinned, of _whose the corpses fell in the wilderness?

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κῶλον

Form 1

Sense 1: dead body, corpse