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