1 Corinthians 10:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδὲ πορνεύωμεν, καθώς τινες αὐτῶν ἐπόρνευσαν, καὶ ἔπεσον ἕν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ εἴκοσι τρεῖς χιλιάδες.

Transliteration

Neither porneuōmen, kathōs some of them eporneusan, and epeson in one day twenty three chiliades

Grammar Details

*porneuōmen*: present subjunctive, 1st person plural - let us commit sexual immorality
*kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/even as
*eporneusan*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they committed sexual immorality
*epeson*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they fell/died
*chiliades*: nominative, feminine, plural - thousands

Word Meanings

*porneuōmen*: commit sexual immorality/fornicate
*eporneusan*: committed sexual immorality/fornicated
*epeson*: fell/died/were killed

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Referenced Verses

Num 25:1-9 : 1 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. 2 And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. 3 And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. 4 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. 5 And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor. 6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. 9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Ps 106:29 : 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Cor 6:9 : 9 {G2228} Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

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