Corpse
κῶλονStrong’s G2966kōlon
Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament
In short
Kōlon is the Greek word usually translated “bodies”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.
“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”
Meaning
Usually translated “bodies”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- bodies 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 1
1 book in all.
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Greek dictionary
κῶλον kōlon · corpse
κῶλον, -ου, τό a limb, member of a body, [but in LXX (Lev.26:30, Num.14:29, 32-33, 1Ki.17:46, Isa.66:24*) for פֶּגֶר ;] hence, carcase: Heb.3:17 (LXX).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “corpse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORPSE, noun
[Latin, a body.]
The dead body of a human being.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.