mapelet · carcass, ruin

What it means

mapelet (מַפֶּלֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carcass, ruin”.

Carcass, the remains of a fallen animal; elsewhere, "ruin" or "fall."

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The body of an animal that has fallen dead, a carcass.
2. The ruin of a city or of someone who falls with a great crash.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fall ×6
• carcass ×1
• downfall ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×6

• Judges 14:8

  After some days he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and look, a swarm of bees was in the body of the lion, and honey.

• Proverbs 29:16

  When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will see their downfall.

• Ezekiel 26:15

  Thus says Adonai YHWH to Tyre: Will not the coastlands quake at the noise of your fall, when the mortally wounded groan, when the killing is carried out in your midst?

• Ezekiel 26:18

  Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are in the sea are dismayed at your departure.’

• Ezekiel 27:27

  Your wealth and your wares, your exchange, your sailors and your pilots, those who repair your cracks, and those who carry on your exchange, and all your men of war who are in you, and all your assembly that is in your midst, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.

• Ezekiel 31:13

  Upon its fall all the birds of the heavens dwell, and on its foliage are all the animals of the field,

• Ezekiel 31:16

  At the sound of its fall I made nations quake, when I brought it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and they were comforted in the land below, all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all who drink water.

• Ezekiel 32:10

  And I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will bristle at you with horror when I brandish my sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, each for his own soul, on the day of your fall.