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 Genesis 15:11; this Hebrew word is also translated "dead body" in Numbers 14:29, 1 Samuel 17:46, Isaiah 34:3, Isaiah 66:24, Ezekiel 6:5, Ezekiel 43:7, and "corpse" in Nahum 3:3.
(2) The Hebrew nebhelah, is also translated "carcass" in Leviticus 5:2, Leviticus 11:8, Leviticus 11:11, Jeremiah 16:18, but as "dead body" in Deuteronomy 28:26 ("body," Joshua 8:29, 1 Kings 13:22, 1 Kings 13:29, 2 Kings 9:37); Isaiah 5:25, Jeremiah 7:33, Jeremiah 16:4, Jeremiah 19:7.
(3) In Judges 14:8 the word mappelah, from naphal, "to incline" or "fall," is also translated "carcass."
(4) In Matthew 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" (Matthew 14:12, Mark 6:29, Mark 15:45), and "dead bodies" (Revelation 11:8, Revelation 11:9).
W. N. Stearns