Carcass, Carcase
Carcass, Carcase
karkas: 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 Gen 15:11; this Hebrew word is also translated dead body in Num 14:29; 1Sa 17:46; Isa 34:3; Isa 66:24; Eze 6:5; Eze 43:7 :9, and corpse in Nah 3:3. (2) The Hebrew , nebhelah, is also translated carcass in Lev 5:2; Lev 11:8, Lev 11:11; Jer 16:18, but as dead body in Deu 28:26 (body, Jos 8:29; 1Ki 13:22, 1Ki 13:29; 2Ki 9:37); Isa 5:25; Jer 7:33; Jer 16:4; Jer 19:7. (3) In Jdg 14:8 the word , mappelah, from , naphal, to incline or fall, is also translated carcass. (4) In Mat 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 (Mat 14:12; Mar 6:29; Mar 15:45), and dead bodies (Rev 11:8, Rev 11:9).