King James Version
Hebrews 3:17 in the King James Version says “But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?” — study this verse from Hebrews chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”
Hebrews 3:17 · KJV
While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“with whom”
G5101an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what (in direct or indirect questions)
“with them that had sinned”
G264properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e., (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin
“the wilderness”
G2048lonesome, i.e., (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, g5561 being implied)
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