(Heb.hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals (Lev. 11:7; Isa. 65:4, 66:3, 17; Lk. 15:15, 16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee (Lk. 8:32, 33). Spoken of figuratively in Mt. 7:6 (see Pr. 11:22). It is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of the Jordan valley (Ps. 80:13).
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