The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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פְּגַר פַּגְרָא‏ n.m. body; corpse

(human) corpse Com. TgO Num14:29 : בְמַדבְרָא הָדֵין יִפְלוּן פִגרֵיכוֹן‏ . TN Num14:32 : ופיגרכון אתון יפלון במ<<ד>>ברה הדין‏ . PJ Lev26:30 : ואישוי ית פיגריכון רמאין על פיגרי טעוותיכון‏ I will set your corpses lying on top of the carcasses of your abominations. (non-human) carcass Palmyrene, JLAtg, Sam. TgJ Jud14:9 : אְרֵי מִפִגרָא/משלדא/ דְאַריָא נְסֵיח דֻבשָא‏ that he had drawn out the honey from the lion's carcass.

(living) body JPAEpig, Syr, BabMBK, Man, LJLA. TgProv10:13 : ושובטא לפיגריה דחסיר רעיונא‏ [=MT וְשֵׁבֶט לְגֵו חֲסַר־לֵב]. TgTosPr Ezek.28:13 : ולא איסתכלתא בפיגרך דאת עביד חיללין וניקבין‏ you did not look at your body: that you are made of hollows and openings.

In Syriac pgr is usually "body" while šld is "corpse" (but see citations). The variant between those two words at TgJ Jud14:9 is indicative rather that in the Jewish tradition there was uncertainty over whether this word could serve for the carcass of an animal. Note that it is never a living body in JLAtg.

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 424b; DJBA: 887b; Jastrow: 1136; Levy Ch-W: 2:254; Tal Sam: 673; DNWSI: 901;

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Derivatives:

pgr vb. a/a D to break up, to destroy

mpgrw (məp̄aggərū, məp̄aggərūṯā) n.f. desolation, destruction

pgwr v.n.D destruction