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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6297

פֶּגֶר

pegerpeh'gher

corpse

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6297is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H6297

a carcase (as limp), whether of man or beast; figuratively, an idolatrous image

The King James renders it: carcase, corpse, dead body.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

peger is rendered "corpse". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:11And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Genesis 15:11הַפְּגָרִ֑ים

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • corpses of4
  • corpses3
  • corpses your3
  • and by corpses of1
  • and corpses1
  • and corpses of1
  • and corpses their1
  • and corpses your1
  • corpse1
  • corpse of1
  • like a corpse1
  • on corpses of1

and 3 more, 22 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

פֶּגַעpegachanceUses2

The words it stands beside

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • פִּגְרֵ֣י2
  • פְּגָרִ֥ים2
  • בְּפִגְרֵי֙1
  • הַפֶּ֔גֶר1
  • הַפְּגָרִ֑ים1
  • הַפְּגָרִ֣ים׀1
  • וּבְפִגְרֵ֥י1
  • וּפִגְרֵ֥י1
  • וּפִגְרֵיהֶ֖ם1
  • וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם1
  • וּפְגָרִים֙1
  • כְּפֶ֥גֶר1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmpc
  • noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural3HNcmpc/Sp2mp
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmpc
  • noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc

Genesis

one use
  • And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

    Genesis 15:11

    • הַפְּגָרִ֑יםhapegarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the carcasses

Leviticus

two uses
  • I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    Leviticus 26:30

    • פִּגְרֵיכֶ֔םpigreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: corpses your
    • פִּגְרֵ֖יpigreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpses of

Numbers

three uses
  • Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

    Numbers 14:29

    • פִגְרֵיכֶ֜םfigreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: corpses your
  • As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

    Numbers 14:32

    • וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖םufigreikhemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and corpses your
  • Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

    Numbers 14:33

    • פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖םpigreikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: corpses your

1 Samuel

one use
  • This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

    1 Samuel 17:46

    • פֶּ֣גֶרpegernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpse of

2 Kings

one use
  • And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

    2 Kings 19:35

    • פְּגָרִ֥יםpegarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: corpses

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

    2 Chronicles 20:24

    • פְּגָרִ֛יםpegarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: corpses
  • Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

    2 Chronicles 20:25

    • וּפְגָרִים֙ufegarimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and corpses

Isaiah

four uses
  • But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

    Isaiah 14:19

    • כְּפֶ֥גֶרkefegerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a corpse
  • Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

    Isaiah 34:3

    • וּפִגְרֵיהֶ֖םufigreihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and corpses their
  • Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

    Isaiah 37:36

    • פְּגָרִ֥יםpegarimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: corpses
  • “As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

    Isaiah 66:24

    • בְּפִגְרֵי֙befigreipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on corpses of

Jeremiah

three uses
  • The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

    Jeremiah 31:40

    • הַפְּגָרִ֣ים׀hapegarimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the corpses
  • The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.

    Jeremiah 33:5

    • פִּגְרֵ֣יpigreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpses of
  • Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

    Jeremiah 41:9

    • פִּגְרֵ֣יpigreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpses of

Ezekiel

three uses
  • I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

    Ezekiel 6:5

    • פִּגְרֵי֙pigreinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpses of
  • and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

    Ezekiel 43:7

    • וּבְפִגְרֵ֥יuvefigreiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and by corpses of
  • Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

    Ezekiel 43:9

    • וּפִגְרֵ֥יufigreiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and corpses of

Amos

one use
  • “In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

    Amos 8:3

    • הַפֶּ֔גֶרhapegerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the corpse

Nahum

one use
  • Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

    Nahum 3:3

    • פָּ֑גֶרpagernoun · masculine singulartagged: corpse

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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