נְבֵלָה
ne.ve.lah
“carcass”
Definition
a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol
from H5034 (נָבֵל);
- carcass, corpse 1a) of humans, idols, animals
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
נְבֵלָה appears 40 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”
They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.
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