פֶּגֶר peger

Hebrew word for “corpse” · Strong’s H6297 · used 22 times in 21 verses

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Meaning

1) corpse, carcass, monument, stela; 1a) corpse (of man); 1b) carcass (of animals)

How it is translated

Glosses given for peger in context, with how often each is used:

• corpses 20
• carcasses 1
• like a corpse 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 14 (3), 2 Chronicles 20 (2), Ezekiel 43 (2), Genesis 15 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 2 Kings 19 (1), Isaiah 14 (1), Isaiah 34 (1), Isaiah 37 (1)

Forms

• פגרי 4
• פגריכם 3
• פגרים 3
• הפגרים 2
• פגר 2
• ופגריכם 1
• ופגרים 1
• כפגר 1
• ופגריהם 1
• בפגרי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with peger more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זְנוּת zenut “fornication” 3
• שָׁלַךְ shalakh “to throw” 4
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 5
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 4
• חָלָל chalal “slain” 3
• מַחֲנֶה machaneh “camp” 3
• שְׁמֹנִים shemonim “eighty” 2
• גִּלּוּל gillul “idol” 2
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 3
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 3
• בּוֹר bor “pit” 2
• שָׁכַם shakham “to rise” 2

Key verses

The verses using peger that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:30 — And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
• Numbers 14:33 — And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
• 1 Samuel 17:46 — This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the…
• 2 Kings 19:35 — And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when…
• 2 Chronicles 20:25 — And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious…
• Isaiah 14:19 — But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the…
• Isaiah 34:3 — Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
• Isaiah 37:36 — Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the…
• Isaiah 66:24 — And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be…
• Jeremiah 31:40 — And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east,…
• Ezekiel 43:7 — And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for…
• Amos 8:3 — And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.