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title: פֶּגֶר — corpse · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פֶּגֶר (6297), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 22 times: corpse. BDB 1906: n.m. corpse, carcass. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פֶּגֶר

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«פֶּגֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **corpse** — 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:** 22 times · **Key:** 6297 · **BDB:** פֶּ֫גֶר

### Glosses

corpses (7); the.corpses (7); \[were\].corpses (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

corpse [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. corpse, carcass [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 14:19 corpse, carcass;—abs. פ׳ Is 14:19 +, פָּ֑גֶר Na 3:3; cstr. פֶּגֶר 1 S 17:46; pl. פְּגָרִים 2 K 19:35 +; cstr. פִּגְרֵי Je 33:5; sf. פִּגְרֵיכֶם Lv 26:30 +, etc.;— of men, sg. Is 14:19; usually pl. 34:3; 66:24 Je 31:40; 33:5; 41:9 Ez 6:5; 43:7, 9 Lv 26:30 Nu 14:29, 32, 33 2 Ch 20:24,—v 25 read prob. בְגָדִים, so 𝔊 (?), 𝔙 Be Krochm Kau Kit;—פְּגָרִים מֵתִים 2 K 19:35 = Is 37:36; sg. coll. 1 S 17:46, רַב־הַפֶּגֶר Am 8:3, כֹּבֶד־פ׳ Na 3:3; fig. of idols פִּגְרֵי גִּלּוּלֵיכֶם Lv 26:30. of animals Gn 15:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פֶּגֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6297/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 14:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.14.32/)

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וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם אַתֶּ֑ם יִפְּל֖וּ בַּמִּדְבָּ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and corpses your you they.will.fall in the wilderness (the) this

*JPS 1917:* But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.

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[Genesis 15:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.11/)

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וַיֵּ֥רֶד הָעַ֖יִט עַל־הַפְּגָרִ֑ים וַיַּשֵּׁ֥ב אֹתָ֖ם אַבְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.came.down the.bird\[s\] of.prey on the carcasses and he.drove.away them Abram

*JPS 1917:* And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

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