Word

נְבֵלָה

nᵉbêlâh · H5038 · Hebrew · 48 occurrences

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Meanings

corpse, dead body

The dead body of humans or animals

Examples
Leviticus 5:2 ‘Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of unclean cattle, or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.
Leviticus 7:24 ‘Also the fat of an animal which dies and the fat of an animal torn by animals may be put to any other use, but you certainly are not to eat it.
Leviticus 11:8 ‘You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.
carcass > lifeless image

Literally: corpse; hence: the image of an idol described in very derogatory terms as a lifeless object

Examples
Jeremiah 16:18 “I will first repay them double for their wrongdoing and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable idols and their abominations.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

37 occurrences in 14 groups

הֶםtheir 15
הוּhis 7
הּher 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

What it doesIt is the subject

17 occurrences in 6 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 8
נָפַלto fall 4
שָׁלַךְto cast, to throw 2
לוּןto spend the night, to grumble 1
קוּםto arise 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is done to itIt is the object

15 occurrences in 7 groups

אָכַלto eat, to devour 6
נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 3
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 2
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
נוּחַto rest, to put, to leave 1
שָׁלַךְto cast, to throw 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

18 occurrences in 3 groups

בin/on/with 17
מִןfrom 7
אֵצֶלbeside 6

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חֶלֶבfat 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Images001003001001010: נְבֵלָה denotes a carcass or dead body, particularly of an animal that died naturally or was killed by another animal, repeatedly declared unclean and forbidden as food in the Levitical purity laws (Leviticus 11:8, 11:11), identifying it as a physical remnant of a dead creature.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָבֵל nâbêl · H5034 · to wither, to fade, to wear oneself out · 25×נְבֵלָהnᵉbêlâh · H5038נֶבֶל nebel · H5035 · skin-bottle, wineskin, jar · 38×נָבָל nâbâl · H5036 · fool, impious person, wanton fool · 18×נְבָלָה nᵉbâlâh · H5039 · foolishness, folly, foolish actions · 13×נַבְלוּת nablûwth · H5040 · woman's private parts · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5038. nebelah נְבֵלָה noun feminine carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby); — ׳נ absolute…

H5038. nebelah
נְבֵלָה noun feminine carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby); — ׳נ absolute 1Ki 13:24 +; construct נִבְלַת 1Ki 13:29 +; suffix נְבֵלָתִי Isa 26:19; נִבְלָֽתְךָ Deu 28:26; 1Ki 13:22; נֵבְלָתוֺ + Josh 82:9 6t.; נִבְלָתָהּ Lev 11:39-40, (twice in verse); נִבְלָתָם Isa 5:25 Isa 5:14t.; — carcass, corpse:
1. a. human (not in Ezekiel, P, (H), which use מֶּגֶר); Jos 8:29 (JE), 1Ki 13:22, 1Ki 13:24 (twice in verse); 1Ki 13:25 (twice in verse); 1Ki 13:28 (3 t. in verse); 1Ki 13:29-30, 2Ki 9:37; Jer 26:23; Jer 36:30; Deu 21:23; Deu 28:26; collective corpses Isa 5:25; Isa 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Jer 7:33; Jer 9:21; Jer 16:4; Jer 19:7; Jer 34:20; Psa 79:2.
b. of lifeless idols, collective וגו שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם ׳נִבְלַת Jer 16:18.
2 of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Leviticus, Ezekiel), Deu 14:8; Lev 5:2 (3 t. in verse); Lev 11:8, Lev 11:11, Lev 11:24, Lev 11:25, Lev 11:27, Lev 11:28, Lev 11:35, Lev 11:36, Lev 11:37, Lev 11:38; Lev 17:15 (all P); ׳נ specifically = body of animal dying of itself Deu 14:21; Lev 7:24; Lev 11:39-40, (twice in verse) (P), Lev 22:8 (H), Eze 4:14; Eze 44:31.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Images1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0