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title: חֲזִיר — swine · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲזִיר (2386), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: swine. BDB 1906: n.m. swine, boar. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲזִיר

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«חֲזִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swine** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 2386 · **BDB:** חֲזִיר

### Glosses

of.a.pig (2); pig (2); the.pig (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲזִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2386/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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