# χοῖρος (choiros)

Strong’s G5519. 13 New Testament occurrences.

a swine, hog, sow.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/choiros-g5519

## Occurrences

- [Matthew 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/7/6) — Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
- [Matthew 8:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/8/30) — And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.
- [Matthew 8:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/8/31) — So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
- [Matthew 8:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/matthew/8/32) — And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place…
- [Mark 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/11) — Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
- [Mark 5:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/12) — And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
- [Mark 5:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/13) — And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea,…
- [Mark 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/14) — And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
- [Mark 5:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/mark/5/16) — And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
- [Luke 8:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/8/32) — And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
- [Luke 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/8/33) — Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
- [Luke 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/15/15) — And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
- [Luke 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/luke/15/16) — And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.