Corpse
פֶּ֫גֶרStrong’s H6297peger (pe-ger)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peger is the Hebrew word usually translated “corpses of”, “corpses your” and “corpses”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.”
Meaning
- Corpse, carcass, monument, stelacorpse (of man) · carcass (of animals)
How it's translated
- corpses of 4
- corpses your 3
- corpses 3
- the carcasses 1
- and corpses your 1
- corpse of 1
- and corpses 1
- like a corpse 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Numbers 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Ezekiel 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Genesis 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Numbers 14:29Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
- Numbers 14:32But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.
- Numbers 14:33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
- 2 Kings 19:35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫גֶר peger · corpse
1) corpse, carcass, monument, stela 1a) corpse (of man) 1b) carcass (of animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “corpse” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORPSE, noun
[Latin, a body.]
The dead body of a human being.
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.