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title: נְבֵלָה — carcass · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְבֵלָה (5038), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 48 times: carcass. BDB 1906: n.f. carcass, corpse. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְבֵלָה

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«נְבֵלָה» 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:** 48 times · **Key:** 5038 · **BDB:** נְבֵלָה

### Glosses

corpse (17); carcass (14); of (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

carcass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5038/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. carcass, corpse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5038/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby);—נ׳ abs. 1 K 13:24 +; cstr. נִבְלַת v 29 +; sf. נְבֵלָתִי Is 26:19; נִבְלָֽתְךָ Dt 28:26 1 K 13:22; נִבְלָתוֹ Jos 8:29 + 6 times; נִבְלָתָהּ Lv 11:39, 40(×2); נִבְלָתָם Is 5:25 + 14 times;—carcass, corpse: human (not in Ez P, (H), which use פֶּגֶר); Jos 8:29 (JE), 1 K 13:22, 24(×2), 25(×2), 28(×3), 29, 30 2 K 9:37 Je 26:23; 36:30 Dt 21:23; 28:26; coll. corpses Is 5:25; 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Je 7:33; 9:21; 16:4; 19:7; 34:20 ψ 79:2. of lifeless idols, coll. נִבְלַת שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם וגו׳ Je 16:18. of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Lv Ez), Dt 14:8; Lv 5:2(×3) 11:8, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38; 17:15 (all P); נ׳ specif. = body of animal dying of itself Dt 14:21; Lv 7:24; 11:39, 40(×2) (P), 22:8 (H), Ez 4:14; 44:31.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 2 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְבֵלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5038/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 22:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.8/)

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נְבֵלָ֧ה וּטְרֵפָ֛ה לֹ֥א יֹאכַ֖ל לְטָמְאָה־בָ֑הּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.carcass and a.torn.animal not he.will.eat to become.unclean by it I \[am\].Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* That which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.

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[Leviticus 11:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.24/)

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וּלְאֵ֖לֶּה תִּטַּמָּ֑אוּ כָּל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בְּנִבְלָתָ֖ם יִטְמָ֥א עַד־הָעָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and to these you.will.make.yourselves.unclean every (the).\[one who\].touches (in) carcass their he.will.be.unclean until the evening

*JPS 1917:* And by these ye shall become unclean; whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until even.

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