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# פֶּגֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6297

**corpse** — used 22 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

corpse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫גֶר: n.m. corpse, carcass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 14:19 corpse, carcass;—abs. פ׳ Is 14:19 +, פָּ֑גֶר Na 3:3; cstr. פֶּגֶר 1 S 17:46; pl. פְּגָרִים 2 K 19:35 +; cstr. פִּגְרֵי Je 33:5; sf. פִּגְרֵיכֶם Lv 26:30 +, etc.;— of men, sg. Is 14:19; usually pl. 34:3; 66:24 Je 31:40; 33:5; 41:9 Ez 6:5; 43:7, 9 Lv 26:30 Nu 14:29, 32, 33 2 Ch 20:24,—v 25 read prob. בְגָדִים, so 𝔊 (?), 𝔙 Be Krochm Kau Kit;—פְּגָרִים מֵתִים 2 K 19:35 = Is 37:36; sg. coll. 1 S 17:46, רַב־הַפֶּגֶר Am 8:3, כֹּבֶד־פ׳ Na 3:3; fig. of idols פִּגְרֵי גִּלּוּלֵיכֶם Lv 26:30. of animals Gn 15:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: corpses (7); the corpses (7); \[were\] corpses (3).

## In the verses

[Numbers 14:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.32/#tree)

וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֑ם יִפְּל֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and corpses your you they.will.fall in the wilderness (the) this

*JPS 1917:* But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

[Genesis 15:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥רֶד הָעַ֖יִט עַל־הַפְּגָרִ֑ים וַיַּשֵּׁ֥ב אֹתָ֖ם אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.came.down the.bird\[s\] of.prey on the carcasses and he.drove.away them Abram

*JPS 1917:* And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6297.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/): 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).