Carcass; Carcase

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 Gen 15:11; this Hebrew word is also translated "dead body" in Num 14:29; 1 Sam 17:46; Isa 34:3; Isa 66:24; Ezek 6:5; Ezek 43:7, 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 Deut 28:26 ("body," Josh 8:29; 1 Kgs 13:22; 1 Kgs 13:29; 2 Kgs 9:37); Isa 5:25; Jer 7:33; Jer 16:4; Jer 19:7.

(3) In Judg 14:8 the word mappelah, from naphal, "to incline" or "fall," is also translated "carcass."

(4) In Matt 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" (Matt 14:12; Mark 6:29; Mark 15:45), and "dead bodies" (Rev 11:8; Rev 11:9).

W. N. Stearns