Carcass
נְבֵלָהStrong’s H5038nevelah (ne-ve-lah)
Appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nevelah is the Hebrew word usually translated “corpse his”, “carcass their” and “corpse”. It appears in 41 verses of the Old Testament.
“Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.”
Meaning
- Carcass, corpseof humans, idols, animals
How it's translated
- corpse his 6
- carcass their 5
- the corpse 5
- corpse of 5
- any of carcass their 4
- corpse their 4
- a carcass of 3
- a carcass 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 16
- Jeremiah 8
- 1 Kings 6
- Deuteronomy 4
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 7:24And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
- Leviticus 11:8Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:11They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- Leviticus 11:24And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 11:25And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
- Leviticus 11:27And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
Hebrew dictionary
נְבֵלָה nevelah · carcass
1) carcass, corpse 1a) of humans, idols, animals
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “carcass” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CARCASS, noun
- The body of an animal; usually the body when dead.
- The decaying remains of a bulky thing, as of a boat or ship.
- The frame or main parts of a thing, unfinished or without ornament.
All definitions and other forms of “carcass”
CARCASS, noun
An iron case or hollow vessel, about the size of a bomb, of an oval figure, filled with combustible and other substances, as meal-powder, salt-peter, sulphur, broken glass, turpentine, etc., to be thrown from a mortar into a town, to set fire to buildings. It has two or three apertures, from which the fire blazes, and the light sometimes serves as a direction in throwing shells. It is equipped with pistol-barrels, loaded with powder to the muzzle, which explode as the composition burns down to them. This instrument is probably named from the ribs of iron that form it, which resemble the ribs of a human carcass
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.