Lexical Summary chazir: swine, boar Original Word: חֲזִירTransliteration: chazir Phonetic Spelling: (khaz-eer') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: swine, boar Meaning: swine, boar Strong's Concordance boar, swine From an unused root probably meaning to enclose; a hog (perhaps as penned) -- boar, swine. Brown-Driver-Briggs H2386. chazir חֲזִיר noun masculinePsalm 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 Leviticus 11:7 (P), Deuteronomy 14:8, compare הַח ׳בְּשַׂר Isaiah 65:4; 66:17, and ׳דַּםחֿ 66:3 as heathen offering (RSSemitic 1, 272, 325, 338, 392); with implication of repul siveness ח בְּאַף זָהָב ׳נֶזֶם Proverbs 11:22 simile of fair woman with dubious character. 2 wild boar ׳ח מִיָּ֑עַר Psalm 80:14 figurative of foes of Israel (in figurative of vineyard). |
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