Lexical Definition

‎נְבֵלָה‎ nᵉbêlâh (neb-ay-law') carcass ^H:N-F
from ‎נָבֵל‎

(dead) body, (dead) carcase, dead of itself, which died, (beast) that (which) dieth of itself.

• a flabby thing, i.e. a carcase or carrion (human or bestial, often collectively)
• figuratively, an idol

1) carcass, corpse
1a) of humans, idols, animals

See Greek: νεκρός · σῶμα

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎נְבֵלָה‎ noun feminine carcass, corpse (as inert, flabby); — ‎׳‎‎נ‎ absolute 1Kgs 13:24 +; construct ‎נִבְלַת‎ v1Kgs 13:29 +; suffix ‎נְבֵלָתִי‎ Isa 26:19 ‎נִבְלָֽתְךָ‎ Deut 28:26; 1Kgs 13:22 ‎נֵבְלָתוֺ‎ + Josh 82:9 + 6 t.; ‎נִבְלָתָהּ‎ Lev 11:39; Lev 11:40 (twice in verse); ‎נִבְלָתָם‎ Isa 5:25 + 14 t.; — carcass, corpse:

1. a. human (not in Ezekiel, P, (H), which use ‎פֶּגֶר‎); Josh 8:29 (JE), 1Kgs 13:22; 1Kgs 13:24 (twice in verse); 1Kgs 13:25 (twice in verse); 1Kgs 13:28 (3 t. in verse); 1Kgs 13:29; 1Kgs 13:30; 2Kgs 9:37; Jer 26:23; Jer 36:30; Deut 21:23; Deut 28:26 collective corpses Isa 5:25; Isa 26:19 (wish for restoration to life), Jer 7:33; Jer 9:21*; Jer 16:4; Jer 19:7; Jer 34:20; Ps 79:2.
b. of lifeless idols, collective ‎׳‎‎נִבְלַת שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶם וגו‎ Jer 16:18.

2. of animals (clean and unclean, wild animals, cattle, birds and reptiles, chiefly Leviticus, Ezekiel), Deut 14:8; Lev 5:2 (3 t. in verse); Lev 11:8; Lev 11:11; Lev 11:24; Lev 11:25; Lev 11:27; Lev 11:28; Lev 11:35; Lev 11:36; Lev 11:37; Lev 11:38; Lev 17:15 (all P); ‎׳‎‎נ‎ specifically = body of animal dying of itself Deut 14:21; Lev 7:24; Lev 11:39; Lev 11:40 (twice in verse) (P), Lev 22:8 (H), Ezek 4:14; Ezek 44:31.

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