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 Judges — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Judges
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.
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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.
