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H2386 חֲזִיר (chăzîyr) khaz-eer'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from an unused root probably meaning to enclose; a hog (perhaps as penned)

KJV Usage: boar, swine

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

חֲזִיר (cha.zir) — swine. 1) hog, swine, boar 1a) swine (as forbidden food) 1b) wild boar

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m

Wild Animals | Domestic Animals

(wild) pig = hairy mammal with hoofs, brown or gray in color; non-ruminant and omnivorous; ◄ |iSus scropus|i*, wild or domesticated land animal; ► unclean animal and therefore not to be eaten; ≈ regarded as an ugly, filthy, and destructive animal and often associated with pagan rituals

LEV 11:7 · DEU 14:8 · PSA 80:14 · PRO 11:22 · ISA 65:4 · ISA 66:17 · ISA 66:3

Reinier de Blois

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

חֲזִיר n.m. swine, boar base

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