Corpse
Corpse
(, geviyah’, Neh 3:3, a carcase, as rendered in Jdg 14:8-9, elsewhere body; pe’ger, 2Ki 19:35; Isa 37:6, a carcase or body [usually dead], as elsewhere rendered; , Mar 6:29, a dead body or carcase, as elsewhere rendered), the dead body of a human being. SEE CARCASE.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Corpse
korps: This word in the King James Version is the translations of two Hebrew words, , pegher, and , gewyah, while , nebhelah, and , guphah, which mean the same, are translated body, with which the English word corpse (Latin, corpus) was originally synonymical. Therefore we find the now apparently unnecessary addition of the adjective dead in 2Ki 19:35 and Isa 37:36. The Greek equivalent is , ptoma, literally, a fallen body, a ruin (from , ppto, to fall), in Mar 6:29; Rev 11:8, Rev 11:9.
Corpses were considered as unclean and defiling in the Old Testament, so that priests were not to touch dead bodies except those of near kinsfolk (Lev 21:1-3), the high priest and a Nazirite not even such (Lev 21:11; Num 6:6-8). Nu 19 presents to us the ceremonial of purification from such defilement by the sprinkling with the ashes of a red heifer, cedar wood, hyssop and scarlet.
It was considered a great calamity and disgrace to have one’s body left unburied, a food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth (Deu 28:26; 2Sa 21:10; Psa 79:2; Isa 34:3; Jer 7:33, etc.). Thence is explained the merit of Rizpah (2Sa 21:10), and of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, who protected or recovered and buried the mutilated bodies of Saul and his sons (1Sa 31:11-13; 2Sa 2:4-7; compare 1Ch 10:11, 1Ch 10:12). See BURIAL.
Even the corpses of persons executed by hanging were not to remain on the tree all night, for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Yahweh thy God giveth thee for an inheritance (Deu 21:23).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Corpse
see BODY, No. 3.