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# חֲזִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2386

**swine** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

swine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2386/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲזִיר: n.m. swine, boar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2386/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 80:14 swine, boar (NH id.; Aramaic חֲזִירָא, ܚܙܺܝܪܳܐ; Arabic خِنْزِيرٌ (Aramaic loan-wd. according to Frä 110, yet v. LagBN 113); Ethiopic ኀንዚር (only once; = wild boar), v. HomNS 319 f. 358, 385)—always st. abs., 4 times c. art. הַח׳;— swine, forbidden as food Lv 11:7 (P), Dt 14:8, cf. בְּשַׂר הַח׳ Is 65:4; 66:17, and דַּם־ח׳ 66:3 as heathen offering (RSSem i, 272.325.338.392); with implication of repulsiveness נֶזֶם זָהָב בְּאַף ח׳ Pr 11:22 sim. of fair woman with dub. character. wild boar ח׳ מִיָּ֑עַר ψ 80:14 fig. of foes of Isr. (in fig. of vineyard).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a pig (2); pig (2); the pig (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 80:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.14/#tree)

יְכַרְסְמֶ֣נָּֽה חֲזִ֣יר מִיָּ֑עַרוְזִ֖יז שָׂדַ֣י יִרְעֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* it eats.it.away wild.boar from.\[the\] forest and moving.creature\[s\] of.\[the\].field it grazes.on.it

*JPS 1917:* The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.

[Proverbs 11:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.22/#tree)

נֶ֣זֶם זָ֭הָב בְּאַ֣ף חֲזִ֑יר אִשָּׁ֥ה יָ֝פָ֗ה וְסָ֣רַת טָֽעַם׃

*Word for word:* a.ring of.gold in.\[the\] nose of.a.pig a.woman beautiful and.\[who\] turns.aside of.discernment

*JPS 1917:* As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2386/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).