Hebrews 3:17
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָרַע
yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
חָטָא
châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
אֲשֶׁר
ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
פֶּגֶר
peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
מִדְבָּר
midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Key Terms in This Verse
פֶּגֶר peger
a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
Study H6297 →יָרַע yâraʻ
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Study H3415 →חָטָא châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Study H2398 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →מִדְבָּר midbâr
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
Study H4057 →אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Study H834 →Cross References
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.
Welcome to LOGOS Study
Your complete Bible study toolkit