חֲזִיר
chăzîyr · H2386 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- PigMammals25 verses
- Wild boarMammals1 verse
Meanings
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Hairy mammal with hoofs, brown or gray in color; non-ruminant and omnivorous; Sus scrofa, wild or domesticated land animal; unclean animal and therefore not to be eaten; regarded as an ugly, filthy, and destructive animal and often associated with pagan rituals ((wild) pig)
ExamplesLeviticus 11:7 And the pig, for though it has a divided hoof, and so it shows a split hoof, it does not chew cud; it is unclean to you.
Deuteronomy 14:8 “And the pig, because it has a divided hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, nor touch their carcasses.
Psalm 80:13 A boar from the forest eats it away, And whatever moves in the field feeds on it.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כִּרְסֵםto ravage 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּשָׂרflesh 2
- דָּםblood 1
- אַףanger, nose 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- χοῖρος choîros · G5519 · pig
- Standard Greek translation-equivalent for Hebrew חֲזִיר (swine/pig); both denote the same unclean animal in biblical contexts (e.g., Lev 11:7, Matt 8:30-32)
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Wild Animals001001002001
- The noun names the wild boar, as the vine Israel is ravaged by "the boar from the forest" (Psalm 80:13).
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- The same word also names the domesticated pig, an animal declared unclean for Israel to eat because it does not chew the cud (Leviticus 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:8).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2386. chazir חֲזִיר noun masculinePsa 80:14 swine, boar (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic…
חֲזִיר noun masculinePsa 80:14 swine, boar (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic חֲזִירָא, Arabic (Aramaic Loan-word according to Frä110, yet see LagBN 113); Ethiopic : (only once; = wild boar), see HomNS 319 f. 358, 385) — always stative absolute, 4 t. with article ׳הַח; —
1 swine, forbidden as food Lev 11:7 (P), Deu 14:8, compare הַח ׳בְּשַׂר Isa 65:4; Isa 66:17, and ׳דַּםחֿ Isa 66:3 as heathen offering (RSSemitic 1, 272, 325, 338, 392); with implication of repul siveness ח בְּאַף זָהָב ׳נֶזֶם Pro 11:22 simile of fair woman with dubious character.
2 wild boar ׳ח מִיָּ֑עַר Psa 80:14 figurative of foes of Israel (in figurative of vineyard).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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