חֵזִיר
Hezir
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2387 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
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חזיר — transliterated Chêzîyr — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Hezir.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. Debuting at 1 Chronicles 24:15, it then recurs through the corpus. See 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2387 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 50%
- Nehemiah 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hezir 2×
- American Standard Version: Hezir 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Hezir 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Hezir 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2387 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2387 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2387 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2387 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a priest of 17th course (assigned to David’s time) 1 Ch 24:15; 𝔊 Χηζειν (16th, v 14), but A Ιεζειρ, 𝔊L Χηζειρ. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:15
- 2. one of those sealed Ne 10:21; 𝔊 Ηζειρ, 𝔊L Αζηρ. e.g. Nehemiah 10:21
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (cf. inscr. in RA 1867, pl. 7, DrSm xxiii; Nö ZMG 1886, 162 ‘pointing ֵto avoid offence;’ but Nbr Acad. 1887, Dec. 17 comp. Talm & 𝔗 (חַזּוּרָא, חֵיזוּר, חֲזוּרָא etc.) pomegranate (and apple; Syriac ܚܰܙܘܽܪ, ܚܰܙܘܽܪܳܐ), cf. בְּנֵי רִמּוֹן 2 S 4:2, 5, 9)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חזיר (chăzîyr) (H2386) — swine.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲזִיר
- (b. h.) swine. Ḥull. IX, 2 ח׳ של ישוב domesticated swine; ח׳ הבר wild boar. Num. R. s. 12 מה איסור … לְהַחֲ׳ וכ׳ is the swine more strictly forbidden than other unclean animals?—Lev. R. s. 13 ואת הח׳ זו פרס (read רומי or אדום). Ib. מה ח׳ וכ׳ as the swine … stretches out its cloven feet (sign of cleanness), … so does the Roman government &c., v. בִּימָה. Gen. R. s. 65, beg.; a. fr.—Pl. חֲזִירִים, חֲזִירִין. Kidd. 49ᵇ תשעה נטלו ח׳ nine (measures of plagues) did swines receive. B. Kam. VII, 7; a. e.—Fem. חֲזִירָה, חֲזִירְתָּה sow. Esth. R. to III, 1. Ib. to I, 15 לח׳ כדת וכ׳ the swine (Vashti) to be treated according to law, but the holy people &c.!, v. אַכְזְרִיּוּת.
חֲזִיר ²
- Targ. Ps. LXXX, 14. Targ. Lev. XI, 7 (some ed. חֲזֵי׳).—Y. Ber. II, 4ᶜ bot. אהן ח׳ וכ׳ the swine is a moving privy. Sabb. 155ᵇ לית … מן ח׳ none is poorer than the dog, none richer than the swine (finding its food everywhere); a. e.—Pl. חֲזִירִין, חֲזִירֵי. Gen. R. s. 63; Y. Ter. VIII, end, 46ᶜ, v. דִּיקְלִטְיָאנוֹס. Taan. 21ᵇ איכא מותנא בח׳ there is an epidemic among the swine; a. e.—Fem. חֲזִירְתָּא, Lam. R. to I, 16, end כהדא ח׳ וכ׳ like the (nursing) sow, the more their young fatten &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H2387 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֵזִֽיר | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 10:20 | 1 |
| לְ/חֵזִיר֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2387, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hezir). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Swine or strong. (1.) The head of the seventeenth course of the priests (1 Chr. 24:15). (2.) Neh. 10:20, one who sealed Nehemiah's covenant.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(Swine).
+ A priest in the time of David, leader of the seventeenth monthly course in the service. (1 Chronicles 24:15) (B.C. 1014.) + One of the heads of the people (lay-men) who sealed the solemn covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:20) (B.C. 410.)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
