פֶּגֶרpeger

corpse, carcass

Pronunciation: peh'gher · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6297

Meanings

1. of men (Isaiah 14:19; Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 66:24)

2. of animals (Genesis 15:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 22 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:11 Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.
  • Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
  • Numbers 14:29 You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.
  • Numbers 14:32 But as for you, you will drop dead in this wilderness.
  • Numbers 14:33 And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.
  • 1 Samuel 17:46 Today the Lord will conquer you, and I will kill you and cut off your head. And then I will give the dead bodies of your men to the birds and wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel!
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).