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title: מַפֶּלֶת — carcass · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַפֶּלֶת (4658), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: carcass. BDB 1906: n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַפֶּלֶת

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«מַפֶּלֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **carcass** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 4658 · **BDB:** מַפֶּ֫לֶת

### Glosses

your.downfall (4); downfall (1); its.downfall (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

carcass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow;— carcass, of lion, מ׳ cstr. Ju 14:8. elsewhere sf. a ruin, מַפַּלְתּוֹ Ez 31:13 (kg. under fig. of tree). overthrow, id. v 16 (same fig.); מַפַּלְתֶּ֑ךָ (kg.) 32:10; מַפַּלְתֵּךְ (of Tyre) 26:15, 18; 27:27; מַפַּלְתָּם (of wicked) Pr 29:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַפֶּלֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4658/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 29:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.29.16/)

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בִּרְב֣וֹת רְ֭שָׁעִים יִרְבֶּה־פָּ֑שַׁע וְ֝צַדִּיקִ֗ים בְּֽמַפַּלְתָּ֥ם יִרְאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* when increase wicked.\[people\] it.increases transgression and righteous.\[people\] on downfall their they.will.look

*JPS 1917:* When the wicked are increased, transgression increaseth; but the righteous shall gaze upon their fall.

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[Ezekiel 31:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.13/)

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עַל־מַפַּלְתּ֥וֹ יִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְאֶל־פֹּארֹתָ֣יו הָי֔וּ כֹּ֖ל חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* on trunk its.fallen they.dwelt every (the).bird of the.heavens and to branches its they.were every (the).animal of the.field

*JPS 1917:* Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;

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