Topic
Carcass; Carcase
28 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 15:11ISBE
And when the fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
- Leviticus 5:2ISBE
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
- Leviticus 11:8ISBE
Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
- Leviticus 11:11ISBE
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- Numbers 14:29ISBE
Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
- Deuteronomy 28:26ISBE
And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
- Joshua 8:29ISBE
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones,…
- Judges 14:8ISBE
¶ And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
- 1 Samuel 17:46ISBE
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 Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the…
- 1 Kings 13:22ISBE
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
- 1 Kings 13:29ISBE
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.
- 2 Kings 9:37ISBE
And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
Show 16 more
- Isaiah 5:25 ISBE
- Isaiah 34:3 ISBE
- Isaiah 66:24 ISBE
- Jeremiah 7:33 ISBE
- Jeremiah 16:4 ISBE
- Jeremiah 16:18 ISBE
- Jeremiah 19:7 ISBE
- Ezekiel 6:5 ISBE
- Ezekiel 7:9 ISBE
- Nahum 3:3 ISBE
- Matthew 14:12 ISBE
- Matthew 24:28 ISBE
- Mark 6:29 ISBE
- Mark 15:45 ISBE
- Revelation 11:8 ISBE
- Revelation 11:9 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 28 references
kar'-kas: The dead body of a beast; used sometimes in a contemptuous way of the dead body of a human being. The use of the word as applied to a living body is not found in either Old Testament or New Testament.
(1) It occurs as a translation of the Hebrew pegher, in Ge 15:11; this Hebrew word is also translated "dead body" in Nu 14:29; 1Sa 17:46; Isa 34:3; 66:24; Eze 6:5; 43:7:9, and "corpse" in Na 3:3.
(2) The Hebrew nebhelah, is also translated "carcass" in Le 5:2; 11:8,11; Jer 16:18, but as "dead body" in De 28:26 ("body," Jos 8:29; 1Ki 13:22,29; 2Ki 9:37); Isa 5:25; Jer 7:33; 16:4; 19:7.
(3) In Jud 14:8 the word mappelah, from naphal, "to incline" or "fall," is also translated "carcass."
(4) In Mt 24:28 the word "carcase" (not "carcass") is used to render the Greek ptoma, the reference probably being here to the dead body of an animal For the body of a human being the Greek is translated "corpse" (Mt 14:12; Mr 6:29; 15:45), and "dead bodies" (Re 11:8,9).
W. N. Stearns
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.