Hebrews 3:17
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And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

with him.

Hebrews 3:10 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

was it.

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:1-13 For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. . . .

whose.

Numbers 14:22,29,32,33 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice, . . .

Deuteronomy 2:15,16 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp. . . .

Jeremiah 9:22 Speak: Thus saith the Lord: Even the carcass of man shall fall as dung upon the face of the country, and as grass behind the back of the mower, and there is none to gather it.

Jude 1:5 I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not.

Context
The Peril of Unbelief
16For some who heard did provoke: but not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? 18And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?…
Cross References
Numbers 14:28
Say therefore to them: As I live, saith the Lord: According as you have spoken in my hearing, so will I do to you.

Numbers 14:29
In the wilderness shall your carcasses lie. All you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, and have murmured against me,

Numbers 14:37
Died and were struck in the sight of the Lord.

Numbers 26:64
Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai.

Psalm 95:10
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

1 Corinthians 10:5
But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Lexicon
And
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

with whom
τίσιν (tisin)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

was [God] angry
προσώχθισεν (prosōchthisen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4360: To be displeased or offended with. From pros and a form of ochtheo; to feel indignant at.

for forty
τεσσεράκοντα (tesserakonta)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 5062: Forty. The decade of tessares; forty.

years?
ἔτη (etē)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2094: A year. Apparently a primary word; a year.

[Was it] not
οὐχὶ (ouchi)
IntPrtcl
Strong's Greek 3780: By no means, not at all. Intensive of ou; not indeed.

with those who
τοῖς (tois)
Article - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

sinned,
ἁμαρτήσασιν (hamartēsasin)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Dative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 264: Perhaps from a and the base of meros; properly, to miss the mark, i.e. to err, especially to sin.

whose
ὧν (hōn)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 3739: Who, which, what, that.

bodies
κῶλα (kōla)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's Greek 2966: A limb, member of a body; fig: a corpse, carcass. From the base of kolazo; a limb of the body.

fell
ἔπεσεν (epesen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's Greek 4098: A reduplicated and contracted form of peto; probably akin to petomai through the idea of alighting; to fall.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

the
τῇ (tē)
Article - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

wilderness?
ἐρήμῳ (erēmō)
Adjective - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 2048: Lonesome, i.e. waste.


Additional Translations
And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was He indignant forty years, if not with those having sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

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

And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

And with whom was God so greatly grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the Desert?

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn't it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

but with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with those who did sin, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
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