פֶּ֫גֶר

Genesis 15:11 הַפְּגָרִ֑ים the carcasses

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Leviticus 26:30 פִּגְרֵיכֶ֔ם פִּגְרֵ֖י corpses your, [the] corpses of

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Here: A dead body, often an unburied one lying where it fell (Num 14:29, 32). It is a blunt word for a carcass, not a respectful term.

Numbers 14:29 פִגְרֵיכֶ֜ם corpses your

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

Numbers 14:32 וּפִגְרֵיכֶ֖ם and corpses your

As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness.

Numbers 14:33 פִּגְרֵיכֶ֖ם corpses your

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

Here: A blunt word for dead bodies, used for animal carcasses too. It repeats v. 29 and v. 32 ('your carcasses will fall'), so the death of the generation is spoken of three times in a few lines.

1 Samuel 17:46 פֶּ֣גֶר [the] corpse[s] of

This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.

Here: The word is singular, but it stands for the whole group: 'the dead bodies'. It is a blunt word for a lifeless body, often used of the unburied dead.

2 Kings 19:35 פְּגָרִ֥ים [were] corpses

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Here: A blunt word for dead bodies, often of slain enemies or the dishonoured dead left lying unburied (Isaiah 14:19; 34:3; Jeremiah 33:5). It carries a note of degradation.

2 Chronicles 20:24 פְּגָרִ֛ים [were] corpses

When the men of Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked for the vast army, but there were only corpses lying on the ground; no one had escaped.

2 Chronicles 20:25 וּפְגָרִים֙ and corpses

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

Isaiah 14:19 כְּפֶ֥גֶר like a corpse

But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 34:3 וּפִגְרֵיהֶ֖ם and corpses their

Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

Isaiah 37:36 פְּגָרִ֥ים [were] corpses

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

Here: "Corpses." A blunt, ugly word for dead bodies lying in the open, unburied, of the kind left for birds after a defeat (1 Samuel 17:46; Isaiah 34:3). There is no dignity in it.

Isaiah 66:24 בְּפִגְרֵי֙ on [the] corpses of

“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Here: 'On the corpses of.' The word means dead bodies, usually the slain left lying after battle or judgment (Isa 34:3; 37:36). The people being looked at are dead, not living sufferers.

Jeremiah 31:40 הַפְּגָרִ֣ים׀ the corpses

The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

Here: 'The corpses.' The word is used for bodies of the slain, often left unburied and dishonoured. It names the place by what lay there: the dead of judgment that Jeremiah foretold in 7:32–33 and 19:6–7.

Jeremiah 33:5 פִּגְרֵ֣י [the] corpses of

The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.

Jeremiah 41:9 פִּגְרֵ֣י [the] corpses of

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Ezekiel 6:5 פִּגְרֵי֙ [the] corpses of

I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

Ezekiel 43:7 וּבְפִגְרֵ֥י and by [the] corpses of

and He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.

Here: Normally 'corpse, carcass'. Here it may mean actual royal burials near the temple, or memorial monuments or offerings for dead kings (see debates). Either way, the language is about death defiling a sanctuary.

Ezekiel 43:9 וּפִגְרֵ֥י and [the] corpses of

Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.

Here: 'And the corpses of.' Everywhere else in the Bible this word means dead bodies, often ones left unburied or dishonoured. Some scholars argue that here it means a memorial monument or offering for the dead, based on related words in other ancient languages of the region. The point is debated.

Amos 8:3 הַפֶּ֔גֶר the corpse[s]

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Here: A dead body, often one left lying unburied after slaughter. The singular 'the corpse' stands for the whole mass of bodies, like English 'the dead.'

Nahum 3:3 פָּ֑גֶר corpse[s]

Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—