Choiros χοῖρος

Choiros (Greek χοῖρος, Strong's G5519) is a Greek masculine noun meaning “pig”. It occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Choiros, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

• 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.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.
• Matthew 8:30
  And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
• Matthew 8:31
  So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
• 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 into the sea, and perished in the waters.“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.

Mark

• Mark 5:11
  Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
• Mark 5:12
  And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
• 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, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.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.
• 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.Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.
• 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.Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.

Luke

• 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.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.
• 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.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.
• 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.So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
• 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.He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).