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# boar

«boar» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a wild pig with thick, bristly hair and sharp tusks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a boar, boars)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A boar, or wild boar, is a wild pig with thick, bristly hair and sharp tusks, living in forests in Europe, Asia and North Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#m1)

2) A boar is also an adult male pig on a farm; the female is a sow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#m2)

3) The male of some other animals, like the guinea pig and badger, is also called a boar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it is a wild pig that tramples a vineyard. The vineyard stands for Israel. Interpretation: The rabbis read the boar as a cruel enemy nation, often Rome, that ruins Israel. The pig was also a forbidden, unclean animal. In the primary lessons: In science lessons boars come up in woodland habitats and food webs; they dig up the ground with their snouts looking for roots, nuts, insects and worms. In history and stories, boar hunting was a royal sport, and a boar's head was served at feasts. In some parts of Europe wild boars come into towns looking for food.

### examples

- The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it. (Writings PSA.80.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x1)
- The wild boar dug in the forest floor with its snout. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x2)
- A boar has sharp tusks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x3)
- The farmer has one boar and ten sows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x4)
- Wild boar piglets have stripes on their fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x5)
- Keep away from wild boars; they can be dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x6)
- In the old story, the hero hunted a giant boar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x7)
- Wild boars live in forests across Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/#x8)

### note

Plural «boars». Homophone traps: «boar» (pig), «bore» (dull, or to make a hole) and «boor» (a rude person). Baby boars are «piglets»; striped wild boar piglets are sometimes called «humbugs» in the UK.

### In the corpora

- [The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1429/)
- [Long before there were gardeners, robins followed wild boar rooting through the forest floor for exactly the same reason.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/1/)
- [With no hunting, farming or traffic, wolves, elk, boar, lynx and even brown bears came back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «boar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/boar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.