χοῖρος choîros

Meaning

a hog

In the King James Version: swine

Derivation: of uncertain derivation;

Where it is used

• Matthew 7:6 Do not give dogs what is holy; do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
• Matthew 8:30 In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
• Matthew 8:31 So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
• Matthew 8:32 “Go!” He told them. So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.
• Mark 5:11 There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
• Mark 5:12 So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
• Mark 5:13 He gave them permission, and the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the water.
• Mark 5:14 Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
• Mark 5:16 Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
• Luke 8:32 There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.
• Luke 8:33 Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.
• Luke 15:15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
• Luke 15:16 He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.