1 Samuel 17:46:111 Sam.17.46.W11TAB
פֶּ֣גֶר
peger
“corpse”
- Transliteration
- PE-ger
- Extended
- PEH-geh r
- IPA
- /ˈpɛ.ɣɛr/
Meaning by language
- English
- corpse
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Pe | p with dagesh; f without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Gimel | g as in good | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r |
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The word
Word in context
- word
PE-ger
- phraseyour reading level
PE-ger ma-kha-NE pe-li-SHTIM
- clause
ha-YOM ha-ZE ye-sag-GER-kha Ye-ho-VAH be-ya-DI ve-hi-KI-ti-kha va-ha-si-RO-ti et-RO-sha-kha me-a-LE-kha ve-na-TAT-ti PE-ger ma-kha-NE pe-li-SHTIM ha-YOM ha-ZE le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-kha-YAT ha-A-rets
- sentence
ha-YOM ha-ZE ye-sag-GER-kha Ye-ho-VAH be-ya-DI ve-hi-KI-ti-kha va-ha-si-RO-ti et-RO-sha-kha me-a-LE-kha ve-na-TAT-ti PE-ger ma-kha-NE pe-li-SHTIM ha-YOM ha-ZE le-OF ha-sha-MA-yim u-le-kha-YAT ha-A-rets ve-ye-de-U KAL-ha-A-rets KI YESH e-lo-HIM le-yis-ra-EL
Exegesis
The construct pe-ger ma-ḥa-nê pə-lish-tîm {פֶּגֶר מַחֲנֵ֤ה פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ | pe-ger ma-ḥa-nê pə-lish-tîm} ‘carcass of the camp of the Philistines’ underscores collective defeat.
Root and etymology
p-g-rpe–gimel–resh
“corpse, body”
In context — 1 Samuel 17:46
This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and remove your head from upon you. And this day I will give the bodies of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the heavens so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
About this coordinate
1 Samuel 17:46:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of 1 Samuel 17:46, so the Hebrew word פֶּ֣גֶר (peger) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Sam.17.46.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Sam.17.46.W11.S1) and character.