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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 - 'Or when a person cometh against any thing unclean, or against a carcase of an unclean beast, or against a carcase of unclean cattle, or against a carcase of an unclean teeming creature, and it hath been hidden from him, and he unclean, and guilty;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:24 - and the fat of a carcase, and the fat of a torn thing is prepared for any work, but ye do certainly not eat it;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:8 - 'Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come -- unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:11 - yea, an abomination they are to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and their carcase ye abominate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:24 - 'And by these ye are made unclean, any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean till the evening;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:25 - and anyone who is lifting up aught of their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening: --

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:27 - 'And any one going on its paws, among all the beasts which are going on four -- unclean they are to you; any one who is coming against their carcase is unclean until the evening;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:28 - and he who is lifting up their carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean until the evening -- unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - and anything on which any of their carcase falleth is unclean (oven or double pots), it is broken down, unclean they are, yea, unclean they are to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:36

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:36 - 'Only -- a fountain or pit, a collection of water, is clean, but that which is coming against their carcase is unclean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:37

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:37 - and when any of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown -- it is clean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:38 - and when water is put on the seed, and any of its carcase hath fallen on it -- unclean it is to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:39 - 'And when any of the beasts which are to you for food dieth, he who is coming against its carcase is unclean till the evening;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:40 - and he who is eating of its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening; and he who is lifting up its carcase doth wash his garments, and hath been unclean till the evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 - 'And any person who eateth a carcase or torn thing, among natives or among sojourners -- hath both washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and hath been unclean until the evening -- then he hath been clean;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:8 - a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I am Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8 - and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not bringing up the cud, unclean it is to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - 'Ye do not eat of any carcase; to the sojourner who is within thy gates thou dost give it, and he hath eaten it; or sell it to a stranger; for a holy people thou art to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day -- for a thing lightly esteemed of God is the hanged one -- and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:26 - and thy carcase hath been for food to every fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and there is none causing trembling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:22 - and turnest back and dost eat bread and drink water in the place of which He said unto thee, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink water -- thy carcase cometh not in unto the burying-place of thy fathers.'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:24 - and he goeth, and a lion findeth him in the way, and putteth him to death, and his carcase is cast in the way, and the ass is standing near it, and the lion is standing near the carcase.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - And lo, men are passing by, and see the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing near the carcase, and they come and speak of it in the city in which the old prophet is dwelling.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:28 - And he goeth and findeth his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion are standing near the carcase -- the lion hath not eaten the carcase nor destroyed the ass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:29 - And the prophet taketh up the carcase of the man of God, and placeth it on the ass, and bringeth it back, and the old prophet cometh in unto the city to mourn and to bury him,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - and he placeth his carcase in his own grave, and they mourn for him, 'Oh, my brother!'

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:37

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the carcase of Jezebel hath been as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, that they say not, This is Jezebel.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 79:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:2 - They gave the dead bodies of Thy servants Food for the fowls of the heavens, The flesh of Thy saints For the wild beast of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:25 - Therefore hath the anger of Jehovah burned among His people, And He stretcheth out His hand against it, And smiteth it, and the mountains tremble, And their carcase is as filth in the midst of the out-places. With all this His anger did not turn back, And still His hand is stretched out!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - 'Thy dead live -- My dead body they rise. Awake and sing, ye dwellers in the dust, For the dew of herbs is thy dew, And the land of Rephaim thou causest to fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:33 - And the carcase of this people hath been for food To a fowl of the heavens, and to a beast of the earth, And there is none troubling.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak thus -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - Of painful deaths they die, They are not lamented, nor are they buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are, And by sword and by famine are consumed, And their carcase hath been for food To the fowl of the heavens, And to the beast of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:18 - And I have recompensed a first -- A second time -- their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:7 - And I have made void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and have caused them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those seeking their life, and I have given their carcase for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:23 - And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:20 - yea, I have given them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those seeking their soul, and their carcase hath been for food to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 - 'Therefore, thus said Jehovah, concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He hath none sitting on the throne of David, and his carcase is cast out to heat by day, and to cold by night;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:14 - And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth hath abominable flesh.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:31 - Any carcase and torn thing, of the fowl, and of the beasts, the priests do not eat.
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