פֶּ֫גֶר
pe.ger
corpse
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "pe.ger" (Strong's number: H6297) has a straightforward definition: it refers to a "corpse." This word is tied to the semantic domain of "Death & Life," indicating a connection to mortality and the state of being dead. In the Bible, "pe.ger" is used 22 times, suggesting its significance in various contexts. Its range of usage includes references to death at the hands of others (e.g., Numbers 1:3, where the phrase "from the corpse" suggests death as a result of violence), as well as references to being slain (e.g., Joshua 10:28, where the enemy was slain "at the corpse"). The consistent meaning of "pe.ger" highlights the importance of mortality in biblical narratives. Its use emphasizes the consequences of violence, war, and death, underscoring the gravity of these themes in the biblical text.
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Occurrences in Scripture
22 total occurrences across the text
When Judah came to the place overlooking the wilderness, they looked at the multitude; and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there were none who escaped.
2 Chronicles 20:25When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
Numbers 14:29Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,
Isaiah 14:19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
Isaiah 34:3Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
Isaiah 37:36Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Isaiah 66:24“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Jeremiah 31:40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”
Jeremiah 33:5while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city:
Jeremiah 41:9Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (this was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
Ezekiel 6:5I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols. I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Ezekiel 43:7He 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 among the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Ezekiel 43:9Now let them put away their prostitution, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me. Then I will dwell among them forever.
Amos 8:3The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
Nahum 3:3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Genesis 15:11The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Numbers 14:32But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
Numbers 14:33Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.
Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
1 Samuel 17:46Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
2 Kings 19:35That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.