Hebrews 3:17

ἔπεσεν most MSS. ἔπεσαν DE.

17. τίσιν δὲ προσώχθισεν; “And with whom was He indignant?” See Hebrews 3:10.

ὧν τὰ κῶλα. To us the words read as though there were a deep and awful irony in this term, as though, “dying as it were gradually during their bodily life, they became walking corpses” (Delitzsch). It is doubtful, however, whether any such thought was in the mind of the writer. The word properly means “limbs,” but is used by the LXX. for the Hebrew pegarim, “corpses.” The phrase is taken from Numbers 14:29, and is a picturesque description of despairing weariness.

ἔπεσεν. Compare the use of the word in 1 Corinthians 10:8.