choiros · pig

What it means

choiros (χοῖρος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “pig”.

An unclean animal under the Law.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A farm animal unclean under the law.

From Abbott-Smith (1922)

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Mark×4
• Luke×4

• Matthew 7:6

  “Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor throw your pearls before the pigs, so that they will not trample them under their feet and turn and tear you to pieces.

• Matthew 8:30

  Now at a distance from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding.

• Matthew 8:31

  And the demons were begging him, saying, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”

• Matthew 8:32

  And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs; and look, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and died in the waters.

• Mark 5:11

  Now there was there on the mountainside a large herd of pigs feeding;

• Mark 5:12

  and they begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter into them.”

• Mark 5:13

  And he gave them permission. And coming out, the unclean spirits entered into the pigs, and the herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and they were drowning in the sea.

• Mark 5:16

  And those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs.

• Luke 8:32

  Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the hillside; and they begged him to permit them to enter into them; and he permitted them.

• Luke 8:33

  And coming out of the man, the demons entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

• Luke 15:15

  And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:16

  And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him.