Difference between revisions of "Corpse"

        <p> CORPSE, n. L., a body. The dead body of a human being. </p>

        <div> 1: Πτῶμα <div> <audio> </audio> <button> ► </button> </div> (Strong'S #4430 — Noun Neuter — ptoma — pto'-mah ) </div> <p> see [[Body]] , No. 3. </p>

        <p> '''''kōrps''''' : This word in the King James Version is the translations of two [[Hebrew]] words, פגר , <i> '''''pegher''''' </i> , and גּויּה , <i> '''''gewı̄yāh''''' </i> , while נבלה , <i> '''''nebhēlāh''''' </i> , and גּוּפה , <i> '''''gūphāh''''' </i> , which mean the same, are translated "body," with which the English word "corpse" (Latin, <i> corpus </i> ) was originally synonymical. Therefore we find the now apparently unnecessary addition of the adjective "dead" in 2 Kings 19:35 and Isaiah 37:36 . The [[Greek]] equivalent is πτῶμα , <i> '''''ptō̇ma''''' </i> , literally, "a fallen body," "a ruin" (from πίπτω , <i> '''''pı́ptō''''' </i> , "to fall"), in Mark 6:29; Revelation 11:8 , Revelation 11:9 . </p> <p> 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 ( Leviticus 21:1-3 ), the high priest and a [[Nazirite]] not even such ( Leviticus 21:11; Numbers 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. </p> <p> 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" ( Deuteronomy 28:26; 2 Samuel 21:10; [[Psalm]] 79:2; Isaiah 34:3; Jeremiah 7:33 , etc.). Thence is explained the merit of [[Rizpah]] ( 2 Samuel 21:10 ), and of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead, who protected or recovered and buried the mutilated bodies of Saul and his sons ( 1 Samuel 31:11-13; 2 Samuel 2:4-7; compare 1 Chronicles 10:11 , 1 Chronicles 10:12 ). See [[Burial]] . </p> <p> 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" ( Deuteronomy 21:23 ). </p>

        <p> ( גְּוַיָּה, geviyah', Nehemiah 3:3, a carcase, as rendered in Judges 14:8-9, elsewhere "body; פֶּגֶר pe'ger, 2 Kings 19:35; Isaiah 37:6, a "carcase" or "body" [usually dead], as elsewhere rendered; πτῶμα, Mark 6:29, a dead "body" or "carcase," as elsewhere rendered), the dead body of a human being. (See [[Carcase]]). </p>

        <ref name="term_59108"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/king-james-dictionary/corpse Corpse from King James Dictionary]</ref>

        <ref name="term_77161"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/vine-s-expository-dictionary-of-nt-words/corpse Corpse from Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words]</ref>

        <ref name="term_2659"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/corpse Corpse from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref>

        <ref name="term_34505"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/corpse Corpse from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>