Hebrews recalls God's judgment on the exodus generation: 'And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?' (Hebrews 3:17). The term literally means limbs or members but functions as a vivid way to say 'bodies' or 'corpses.' Classical usage includes arms and legs, the articulated parts of the body. The plural emphasizes the multitude of bodies scattered across the desert—a generation that failed to enter rest. The image is deliberately stark: rebellion leads to death.