Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

1 Corinthians 10:5

Many [τ ο ι ς π λ ε ι ο σ ι ν]. The A. V. misses the force of the article, the many. Hence Rev., correctly, most of them. All perished save Caleb and Joshua.

Overthrown [κ α τ ε σ τ ρ ω θ η σ α ν]. Only here in the New Testament. Lit., were strewn down along (the ground). The word belongs mostly to later Greek, though found in Herodotos in the general sense of slaying. So Euripides : "He laid low his wife and child with one dart" (" Hercules Furens, " 1000). It is used of spreading a couch.

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Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

1 Corinthians 10:5

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