מַפֶּ֫לֶת
carcass
also: ruin, overthrow fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4658 appears in the Book of Ezekiel — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 26:15 מַפַּלְתֵּ֗/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
- Ezekiel 26:18 מַפַּלְתֵּ֑/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.
- Ezekiel 27:27 מַפַּלְתֵּֽ/ךְ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2fs Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.
- Ezekiel 31:13 מַפַּלְתּ֥/וֹ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
- Ezekiel 31:16 מַפַּלְתּ/וֹ֙ n c fs cs + sfx pers 3ms I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
- Ezekiel 32:10 מַפַּלְתֶּֽ/ךָ n c fs cs + sfx pers 2ms Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun מפלת centers on the idea of “carcass.” Ezekiel dominates its distribution — 6 of 8 verses. Spanning 8 verses in 3 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Beyond “carcass” it also covers “ruin” and “overthrow” — see its full sense range. Its English rendering has broadened — “fall” classically, “downfall” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4658 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 7 verses · 88%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fall 5×, Ruin 2×
- American Standard Version: Fall 5×, Ruin 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Downfall 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Downfall 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4658 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4658 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4658 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4658 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. carcass, of lion, מ׳ cstr. Ju 14:8. e.g. Judges 14:8
- 2. elsewhere sf.
- a. a ruin, מַפַּלְתּוֹ Ez 31:13 (kg. under fig. of tree). e.g. Ezekiel 31:13
- b. overthrow, id. v 16 (same fig.); מַפַּלְתֶּ֑ךָ (kg.) 32:10; מַפַּלְתֵּךְ (of Tyre) 26:15, 18; 27:27; מַפַּלְתָּם (of wicked) Pr 29:16. e.g. Ezekiel 31:16
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. carcass, ruin, overthrow;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נפל (nâphal) (H5307) — to fall.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מַפּוֹלֶת
- (נָפַל)
- 1. dropping, throwing seed. Arakh. 25ᵃ כור זרע … במ׳ יד we assess the value of a field by the quantity of seed … which it takes when strewing with the hand, opp. to מ׳ שוורים strewing from a perforated bag or wagon drawn by oxen; B. Mets. 105ᵇ; a. e.—Y. Ber. III, 6ᶜ bot. במפלת יד with one and the same throw.
- 2. falling in, debris. Ber. 3ᵃ, sq. you must not enter a ruined building for prayer מפני המ׳ because it may fall in. Y. Sabb. XVI, 15ᵈ top מצילין … מיד המ׳ we must save (on the Sabbath) … persons buried under debris. Pes. II, 3 חמץ שנפלה עליו מ׳ leavened matter covered with debris; a. fr.
- 3. (= מַפָּלָה) downfall. Y. Ber. V, beg. 8ᵈ במ׳ של מחריביו חתם Jeremiah closed with prophesying the downfall of the destroyers of the Temple; (Midr. Till. to Ps. IV במַפַּלְתָּן).
מַפֹּלֶת
- , v. מַפּוֹלֶת
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H4658 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּֽ/מַפַּלְתָּ֥/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Proverbs 29:16 | 1 |
| מַפֶּ֣לֶת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Judges 14:8 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתּ/וֹ֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 31:16 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתּ֥/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 31:13 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתֵּ֑/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 26:18 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתֵּ֗/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 26:15 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתֵּֽ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 27:27 | 1 |
| מַפַּלְתֶּֽ/ךָ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ezekiel 32:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4658, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מפל mappâl H4651 refuse
- מפלה mappâlâh H4654 ruin
- נפיל nᵉphîyl H5303 giants
- נפל nᵉphal H5308 to fall
- נפל nephel H5309 miscarriage
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
