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# נְבֵלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5038

**carcass** — used 48 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/1504/5038/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבֵלָה: n.f. carcass, corpse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5038/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby);—נ׳ abs. 1 K 13:24 +; cstr. נִבְלַת v 29 +; sf. נְבֵלָתִי Is 26:19; נִבְלָֽתְךָ Dt 28:26 1 K 13:22; נִבְלָתוֹ Jos 8:29 + 6 times; נִבְלָתָהּ Lv 11:39, 40(×2); נִבְלָתָם Is 5:25 + 14 times;—carcass, corpse: human (not in Ez P, (H), which use פֶּגֶר); Jos 8:29 (JE), 1 K 13:22, 24(×2), 25(×2), 28(×3), 29, 30 2 K 9:37 Je 26:23; 36:30 Dt 21:23; 28:26; coll. corpses Is 5:25; 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Je 7:33; 9:21; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20 ψ 79:2. of lifeless idols, coll. נִבְלַת שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם וגו׳ Je 16:18. of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Lv Ez), Dt 14:8; Lv 5:2(×3) 11:8, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38; 17:15 (all P); נ׳ specif. = body of animal dying of itself Dt 14:21; Lv 7:24; 11:39, 40(×2) (P), 22:8 (H), Ez 4:14; 44:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: corpse (17); carcass (14); of (5).

## In the verses

[Leviticus 22:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.8/#tree)

נְבֵלָ֧ה וּטְרֵפָ֛ה לֹ֥א יֹאכַ֖ל לְטָמְאָה־בָ֑הּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.carcass and a.torn.animal not he.will.eat to become.unclean by it I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

[Leviticus 11:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.24/#tree)

וּלְאֵ֖לֶּה תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בְּנִבְלָתָ֖ם יִטְמָ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and to these you.will.make.yourselves.unclean every (the).\[one who\].touches (in) carcass their he.will.be.unclean until the evening

*JPS 1917:* And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until even.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5038.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5038/): 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).