1 Corinthians 10:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐν τοῖς πλείοσιν αὐτῶν εὐδόκησεν ὁ Θεός: κατεστρώθησαν γὰρ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

Transliteration

All' not with the pleiosin of them eudokēsen the Theos: katestrōthēsan gar in the erēmō

Grammar Details

*All'*: strong adversative particle - but/however
*pleiosin*: dative, masculine, plural, comparative - more/greater number
*eudokēsen*: aorist indicative, 3rd person singular - was pleased/took pleasure in
*Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
*katestrōthēsan*: aorist passive, 3rd person plural - they were scattered/overthrown/cast down
*gar*: explanatory particle - for/because
*erēmō*: dative, feminine, singular - wilderness/desert

Word Meanings

*pleiosin*: most/majority/greater part
*eudokēsen*: was pleased with/took pleasure in/was favorable to
*katestrōthēsan*: were overthrown/scattered/fell dead/were strewn about
*erēmō*: wilderness/desert/desolate place

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Referenced Verses

Heb 3:17 : 17 And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
Num 26:64-65 : 64 But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. 65 For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Num 14:28-35 : 28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation. 35 I, Jehovah, have spoken, surely this will I do unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
Num 14:37 : 37 even those men that did bring up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Jehovah.
Ps 106:26 : 26 Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
Num 14:11-12 : 11 And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them? 12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Deut 1:34-35 : 34 And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, 35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,
Deut 2:15-16 : 15 Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed. 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Ps 78:32-34 : 32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works. 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror. 34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
Ps 90:1 : 1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
Ps 90:7-8 : 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Ps 95:11 : 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.

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Heb 3:16-18
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16For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses?
17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them {G2532} made trial, and perished by the serpents.
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3and did all eat the same spiritual food;
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15Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
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Deut 1:27
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