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Lexicon :: Strong's H5038 - nᵊḇēlâ

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נְבֵלָה
Transliteration
nᵊḇēlâ
Pronunciation
neb-ay-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1286a

Strong’s Definitions

נְבֵלָה nᵉbêlâh, neb-ay-law'; from H5034; a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol:—(dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's H5038 in the following manner: carcase (36x), dead body (5x), dieth of itself (4x), dead of itself (1x), died (1x), body (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's H5038 in the following manner: carcase (36x), dead body (5x), dieth of itself (4x), dead of itself (1x), died (1x), body (1x).

  1. carcass, corpse

    1. of humans, idols, animals

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נְבֵלָה nᵉbêlâh, neb-ay-law'; from H5034; a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol:—(dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.
STRONGS H5038: Abbreviations
† נְבֵלָה noun feminine carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby); — נ׳ absolute 1 Kings 13:24 +; construct נִבְלַת 1 Kings 13:29 +; suffix נְבֵלָתִי Isaiah 26:19; נִבְלָֽתְךָ Deuteronomy 28:26; 1 Kings 13:22; נֵבְלָתוֺ + Josh 82:9 + 6 times; נִבְלָתָהּ Leviticus 11:39, 40 (twice in verse); נִבְלָתָם Isaiah 5:25 + 14 times; — carcass, corpse:
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a. human (not in Ezekiel, P, (H), which use פֶּגֶר); Joshua 8:29 (JE), 1 Kings 13:22, 24 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 13:25 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 13:28 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 13:29, 30; 2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 26:23; Jeremiah 36:30; Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 28:26; collective corpses Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 9:21; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20; Psalm 79:2.
b. of lifeless idols, collective נִבְלַת שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם וגו׳ Jeremiah 16:18.
2. of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Leviticus, Ezekiel), Deuteronomy 14:8; Leviticus 5:2 (3 times in verse); Leviticus 11:8, 11, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38; Leviticus 17:15 (all P); נ׳ specifically = body of animal dying of itself Deuteronomy 14:21; Leviticus 7:24; Leviticus 11:39, 40 (twice in verse) (P), Leviticus 22:8 (H), Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 44:31.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

5:2; 7:24; 11:8; 11:11; 11:24; 11:25; 11:27; 11:28; 11:35; 11:36; 11:37; 11:38; 11:39; 11:39; 11:40; 11:40; 17:15; 22:8

Deuteronomy

14:8; 14:21; 21:23; 28:26; 28:26

Joshua

8:29

1 Kings

13:22; 13:22; 13:24; 13:24; 13:25; 13:28; 13:29; 13:29; 13:30

2 Kings

9:37

Psalms

79:2

Isaiah

5:25; 5:25; 26:19; 26:19

Jeremiah

7:33; 9:21; 16:4; 16:18; 19:7; 26:23; 34:20; 36:30

Ezekiel

4:14; 44:31

H5038

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5038 matches the Hebrew נְבֵלָה (nᵊḇēlâ),
which occurs 48 times in 41 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:2 - “ ‘If anyone becomes aware that they are guilty—if they unwittingly touch anything ceremonially unclean (whether the carcass of an unclean animal, wild or domestic, or of any unclean creature that moves along the ground) and they are unaware that they have become unclean, but then they come to realize their guilt;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:11 - And since you are to regard them as unclean, you must not eat their meat; you must regard their carcasses as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - “ ‘You will make yourselves unclean by these; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 - Whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - Of all the animals that walk on all fours, those that walk on their paws are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - Anyone who picks up their carcasses must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. These animals are unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - Anything that one of their carcasses falls on becomes unclean; an oven or cooking pot must be broken up. They are unclean, and you are to regard them as unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - A spring, however, or a cistern for collecting water remains clean, but anyone who touches one of these carcasses is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - If a carcass falls on any seeds that are to be planted, they remain clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - But if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - “ ‘If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 - Anyone who eats some of its carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening. Anyone who picks up the carcass must wash their clothes, and they will be unclean till evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 - “ ‘Anyone, whether native-born or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or torn by wild animals must wash their clothes and bathe with water, and they will be ceremonially unclean till evening; then they will be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, and so become unclean through it. I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8 - The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where he told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your ancestors.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:24 - As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying on the road, with both the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - Some people who passed by saw the body lying there, with the lion standing beside the body, and they went and reported it in the city where the old prophet lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:28 - Then he went out and found the body lying on the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had neither eaten the body nor mauled the donkey.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - So the prophet picked up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - Then he laid the body in his own tomb, and they mourned over him and said, “Alas, my brother!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - Jezebel’s body will be like dung on the ground in the plot at Jezreel, so that no one will be able to say, ‘This is Jezebel.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They have left the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 - Therefore the LORD’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - But your dead will live, LORD; their bodies will rise— let those who dwell in the dust wake up and shout for joy— your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Say, “This is what the LORD declares: “ ‘Dead bodies will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather them.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - I will repay them double for their wickedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the lifeless forms of their vile images and have filled my inheritance with their detestable idols.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - “ ‘In this place I will ruin[fn] the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies, at the hands of those who want to kill them, and I will give their carcasses as food to the birds and the wild animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 - Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - Then I said, “Not so, Sovereign LORD! I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have never eaten anything found dead or torn by wild animals. No impure meat has ever entered my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - The priests must not eat anything, whether bird or animal, found dead or torn by wild animals.
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