peger · carcass, corpse

What it means

peger (פֶּגֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carcass, corpse”.

Dead body, carcass, of a person or an animal.

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 a dead person, lying lifeless.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• corpses ×18
• bodies ×2
• carcasses ×1
• like a corpse ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Amos×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 15:11

  The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

• Leviticus 26:30

  And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and put your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and my soul will loathe you.

• Numbers 14:29

  In this wilderness your corpses shall fall, and all of you who were counted in all your number, from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,

• Numbers 14:32

  But as for you, your corpses shall fall in this wilderness.

• Numbers 14:33

  And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they shall bear your acts of prostitution until the last of your corpses lies in the wilderness.

• 1 Samuel 17:46

  This day YHWH will hand you over into my hand, and I will strike you and remove your head from you; and I will give the corpses of the camp of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and to the animals of the earth, and all the earth will know that Israel has Elohim.

• 2 Kings 19:35

  And it happened that night that the angel of YHWH went out and struck in the camp of Assyria a hundred eighty-five thousand; and when they rose early in the morning, look, all of them were dead bodies.

• 2 Chronicles 20:24

  When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they turned toward the multitude, and look, they were corpses fallen to the ground, and there was no escape.

• 2 Chronicles 20:25

  Jehoshaphat and his people came to plunder their spoil, and they found among them in abundance goods and corpses and precious objects, and they stripped them for themselves until they could carry no more; and they were three days plundering the spoil, for it was much.

• Isaiah 14:19

  but you have been cast out away from your grave like a loathed shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

• Isaiah 34:3

  And their slain will be cast out, and from their corpses their stench will rise, and the mountains will melt with their blood.

• Isaiah 37:36

  The angel of YHWH went out and struck in the camp of Assyria a hundred eighty-five thousand; and when they rose early in the morning, look, all of them were dead bodies.

• Isaiah 66:24

  And they will go out and see the corpses of the men who transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, and their fire will not be quenched; and they will be a horror to all flesh.”

• Jeremiah 31:40

  And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”

• Jeremiah 33:5

  They are coming to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of the human beings whom I have struck in my anger and in my fury, and because I have hidden my face from this city because of all their evil.

• Jeremiah 41:9

  Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down along with Gedaliah was the one that King Asa had made because of Baasha king of Israel; that one Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled with the slain.

• Ezekiel 6:5

  And I will lay the corpses of the sons of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

• Ezekiel 43:7

  And he 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 in the midst of the sons of Israel forever; and the house of Israel will no longer defile my holy name, they and their kings, by their prostitution and by the corpses of their kings in their high places,

• Ezekiel 43:9

  Now let them put far away their prostitution and the corpses of their kings from me, and I will dwell in their midst forever.

• Amos 8:3

  And the songs of the temple will wail on that day, declares Adonai YHWH; many will be the corpses; in every place they will be thrown out. Silence!”

• Nahum 3:3

  horseman charging, and flame of sword, and lightning of spear, and a multitude of the pierced, and a mass of corpses, and there is no end to the bodies; they stumble over their bodies,

And 1 more times.