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Lexicon :: Strong's H6297 - peḡer

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פֶּגֶר
Transliteration
peḡer
Pronunciation
peh'gher
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1732a

Strong’s Definitions

פֶּגֶר peger, peh'gher; from H6296; a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image:—carcase, corpse, dead body.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x

The KJV translates Strong's H6297 in the following manner: carcase (14x), dead body (6x), corpse (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 22x
The KJV translates Strong's H6297 in the following manner: carcase (14x), dead body (6x), corpse (2x).
  1. corpse, carcass, monument, stela

    1. corpse (of man)

    2. carcass (of animals)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פֶּגֶר peger, peh'gher; from H6296; a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image:—carcase, corpse, dead body.
STRONGS H6297: Abbreviations
פֶּ֫גֶר noun masculineIsaiah 14:19 corpse, carcass; — absolute פ׳ Isaiah 14:19 +, פָּ֑גֶר Nahum 3:3; construct פֶּגֶר 1 Samuel 17:46; plural פְּגָרִים 2 Kings 19:35 +; construct פִּגְרֵי Jeremiah 33:5; suffix פִּגְרֵיכֶם Leviticus 26:30 +, etc.; —
1. of men, singular Isaiah 14:19; usually plural Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 66:24; Jeremiah 31:40; Jeremiah 33:5; Jeremiah 41:9; Ezekiel 6:5; Ezekiel 43:7, 9; Leviticus 26:30; Numbers 14:29, 32, 33; 2 Chronicles 20:34, — 2 Chronicles 20:25 read probably בְּגָדִים, so Greek Version of the LXX (?), Vulgate Be Krochm Kau Kit; — מֵתִים פְּגָרִים 2 Kings 19:35 = Isaiah 37:36; singular collective 1 Samuel 17:46, רַב־הַפֶּגֶר Amos 8:3, כֹּבֶדפֿ׳ Nahum 3:3; figurative of idols גִּלּוּלֵיכֶם פִּגְרֵי Leviticus 26:30.
2. of animals Genesis 15:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:11

Leviticus

26:30; 26:30; 26:30

Numbers

14:29; 14:32; 14:33

1 Samuel

17:46; 17:46

2 Kings

19:35; 19:35

2 Chronicles

20:25; 20:34

Isaiah

14:19; 14:19; 14:19; 34:3; 37:36; 66:24

Jeremiah

31:40; 33:5; 33:5; 41:9

Ezekiel

6:5; 43:7; 43:9

Amos

8:3

Nahum

3:3; 3:3

H6297

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6297 matches the Hebrew פֶּגֶר (peḡer),
which occurs 22 times in 21 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:11 - The birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing].
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, even all who were numbered of you, your entire number from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - ‘But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:33 - ‘Your sons shall be wanderers and shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness (spiritual infidelity), until your corpses are consumed in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - “This day the LORD will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 -

Then it came to pass that night, that the [fn]angel of the LORD went forth and struck down 185,000 [men] in the camp of the Assyrians; when the survivors got up early in the morning, behold, all [185,000] of them were dead.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:24 -

When [the men of] Judah came to the lookout tower of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies lying on the ground, and no one had escaped.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25 - When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found much among them, including equipment, garments, and valuable things which they took for themselves, more than they could carry away; so much that they spent three days gathering the spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 -

“But you [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial)

Like a rejected branch,

Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown],

Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 -

So their slain will be thrown out,

And the stench of their corpses will rise,

And the mountains will flow with their blood.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 -

And the [fn]angel of the LORD went out and [fn]struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:24 -

“Then they will go forth and look

Upon the dead bodies of the [rebellious] men

Who have transgressed against Me;

For their worm (maggot) will not die,

And their fire will not go out;

And they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:40 - “And the whole valley (Hinnom) of the dead bodies and [the hill] of the ashes [long dumped there from the temple sacrifices], and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD. It (the city) will not be uprooted or overthrown anymore to the end of the age.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:5 - ‘While they (the besieged Jews) are coming to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill the houses with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, for I have hidden My face [in disgust] from this city because of all their wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 -

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one which King Asa [of Judah] had made [about three hundred years earlier] on account of King Baasha of Israel [believing that Baasha would lay siege to Mizpah]. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [the bodies of] those who were killed.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “I will also lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their [Canaanite] idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - And He [the LORD] said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the sons (descendants) of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their [idolatrous] prostitution and by the corpses and monuments of their kings in their graves,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:9 - “Now let them put far away from Me their [idolatrous] prostitution and the corpses and monuments of their kings, and I will dwell in their midst forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:3 - “In that day, the songs of the palace shall turn to wailing,” says the Lord GOD. “There will be many dead bodies; in [sacred] silence they will throw them everywhere.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 -

Horsemen charging,

Swords flashing, spears gleaming,

Many slain, a mass of corpses,

No end of corpses—

The horsemen stumble over the corpses!

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