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choiros G5519

χοῖρος (choiros) means “pig” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

χοῖρος Greek · G5519 12 tagged occurrences in 12 verses

Pronunciation guide: khoy'-ros Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G5519

χοῖρος · choiros · pig

χοῖρος, -ου, ὁ [in Sm.: Isa.65:4 66:3 ;] a swine: pl., Mat.7:6 8:30-32, Mrk.5:11-13, 16, Luk.8:32-33 15:15-16 † (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a swine, hog, sow.

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How translators render G5519

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
pigs 6
of pigs 4
swine 1
the pigs 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the swine 6
of swine 4
swine 4

Verses containing G5519

Page 1 of 1. 12 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Matthew 7:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  2. Matthew 8:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.

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  3. Matthew 8:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

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  4. Matthew 8:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  5. Mark 5:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.

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  6. Mark 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”

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  7. Mark 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  8. Mark 5:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.

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  9. Luke 8:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  10. Luke 8:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  11. Luke 15:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

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  12. Luke 15:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

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