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# מַפֶּלֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4658

**carcass** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

carcass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַפֶּ֫לֶת: n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow;— carcass, of lion, מ׳ cstr. Ju 14:8. elsewhere sf. a ruin, מַפַּלְתּוֹ Ez 31:13 (kg. under fig. of tree). overthrow, id. v 16 (same fig.); מַפַּלְתֶּ֑ךָ (kg.) 32:10; מַפַּלְתֵּךְ (of Tyre) 26:15, 18; 27:27; מַפַּלְתָּם (of wicked) Pr 29:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: your downfall (4); downfall (1); its downfall (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 29:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.16/#tree)

בִּרְב֣וֹת רְ֭שָׁעִים יִרְבֶּה־פָּ֑שַׁע וְ֝צַדִּיקִ֗ים בְּֽמַפַּלְתָּ֥ם יִרְאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* when increase wicked.\[people\] it.increases transgression and righteous.\[people\] on downfall their they.will.look

*JPS 1917:* When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; but the righteous shall gaze upon their fall.

[Ezekiel 31:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.13/#tree)

עַל־מַפַּלְתּ֥וֹ יִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְאֶל־פֹּארֹתָ֣יו הָי֔וּ כֹּ֖ל חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* on trunk its.fallen they.dwelt every (the).bird of the.heavens and to branches its they.were every (the).animal of the.field

*JPS 1917:* Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4658.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).