UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κῶλον

MainId: 002983000000000

Version: 0

HasAramaic: False

InLXX: True

AlphaPos: κ

StrongCodes: G2966

Notes: {'Caller': 1, 'LanguageCode': 'en', 'LastEdited': '', 'LastEditedBy': '', 'References': [], 'Content': 'In earlier Greek κῶλον designated a limb, but in the NT it occurs only in the plural and means corpses.'}

BaseForms:

BaseFormID: 002983001000000
PartsOfSpeech: noun, n.
Inflections:
1. Lemma: κῶλον
  BaseFormIndex: 1
  Realizations: -ου
LEXMeanings:
1. LEXID: 002983001001000
  LEXIsBiblicalTerm: Y
  LEXEntryCode: 8.8
  LEXIndent: 0
  LEXDomains: Body, Body Parts, and Body Products
  LEXSubDomains: Body
  LEXSenses:
  1. LanguageCode: en
    LastEdited: 2021-10-29 13:41:10
    DefinitionShort: the dead body of a person, especially one which is still unburied{N:001}
    Glosses: ['dead body', 'corpse']
    Comments: Though in {S:05800301700022} 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.’
  LEXReferences: HEB 3:17