King James Version
Numbers 14:32 in the King James Version says “But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.”
Numbers 14:32 · KJV
Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. sware: Heb. lifted up my hand
But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. wander: or, feed
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year , shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise. breach: or, altering of my purpose
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But as for you your carcases”
H6297a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image
“they shall fall”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“in this wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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