HebrewH5038Noun (Feminine)

נְבֵלָה

ne.ve.lah

40Occurrences
H5038Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively); figuratively, an idol

from H5034 (נָבֵל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. carcass, corpse 1a) of humans, idols, animals

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

נְבֵלָה appears 40 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Leviticus
16
Jeremiah
7
1 Kings
6
Deuteronomy
4
Ezk
2
Isaiah
2
2 Kings
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 13:22BSB

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.’”

Deuteronomy 14:21BSB

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.

Jeremiah 16:18BSB

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.”

Leviticus 11:11BSB

They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

Leviticus 11:38BSB

but if water has been put on the seed and a carcass falls on it, it is unclean for you.

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