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Strong's #5038 - נְבֵלָה
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- carcass, corpse
- of humans, idols, animals
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2369) lbn (נבל NBL) AC: Flow CO: ? AB: ?: [from: lb]
V) lbn (נבל NBL) - Fail: To wear out or fade away. KJV (25): (vf: Paal, Piel) fall, esteem, foolishly, nought, vile - Strongs: H5034 (נֵבֶל)
Nm) lbn (נבל NBL) - I. Pitcher:For flowing of liquids. II. Fool:In the sense of fading away. III. Nevel:A musical instrument in the sense of flowing music. KJV (56): psalteries, bottle, viol, flagon, pitcher, vessel, fool, foolish, vile - Strongs: H5035 (נֵבֶל), H5036 (נָבָל)
Nf1) elbn (נבלה NBLH) - I. Carcass:As a flowing away of life. II. Folly:In the sense of fading away. KJV (61): carcass, die, dead, body - Strongs: H5038 (נְבֵלָה), H5039 (נְבָלָה)
Nf4) tflbn (נבלות NBLWT) - Vagina: In the sense of flowing. KJV (1): lewdness - Strongs: H5040 (נַבְלוּת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1. a. human (not in Ezekiel , P, (H), which use מֶּגֶר); Joshua 8:29 (JE), 1 Kings 13:22,24 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 13:25 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 13:28 (3t. in verse); 1 Kings 13:29,30; 2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 26:23; Jeremiah 36:30; Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 28:26; collective corpses Isaiah 5:25; Isaiah 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Jeremiah 7:33; Jeremiah 9:21; Jeremiah 16:4; Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20; Psalm 79:2.
b. of lifeless idols, collective׳נִבְלַת שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם וגו Jeremiah 16:18.
2 of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Leviticus , Ezekiel), Deuteronomy 14:8; Leviticus 5:2 (3t. in verse); Leviticus 11:8,11,24,25,27,28,35,36,37,38; Leviticus 17:15 (all P); ׳נ specifically = body of animal dying of itself Deuteronomy 14:21; Leviticus 7:24; Leviticus 11:39,40 (twice in verse) (P), Leviticus 22:8 (H), Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 44:31.
נְבֵלָה f. const. נִבְלַת (Psalms 79:2); with suff. נְבֵלָתִי Isaiah 26:19 elsewhere נִבְלָֽתְךָ, נִבְלָתוֹ, a corpse (see the root No. 2; compare מַפֶּלֶת from the root נָפַל), of men, Deuteronomy 21:23 of animals, Levit. 5:2 7:24 figuratively of idols, Jeremiah 16:18 compare פֶּגֶר Leviticus 26:30. Collect. corpses, Levit. 11:11 Isaiah 26:19. (Arab. نَبِيلَةُ id.)