Greek noun (masculine) · G5519
χοῖρος
choiroskhoy'-ros
pig
12 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: choîros
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5519is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5519
a hog
The King James renders it: swine.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
choiros is rendered "pig". It stands 12 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:6Do 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.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
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 7:6χοίρων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pigs8
- of pigs4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- χοίρων6
- χοίρους5
- χοῖροι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural6N-GPM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural5N-APM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
Matthew
four uses
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.
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of pigs
So the demons begged Jesus, “If You drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of pigs
“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.
- χοίρουςchoirousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
Mark
four uses
There on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of pigs
So the demons begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
- χοίρουςchoirousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
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.
- χοίρουςchoirousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
Those who had seen it described what had happened to the demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
Luke
four uses
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.
- χοίρωνchoironnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: of pigs
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.
- χοίρουςchoirousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.
- χοίρουςchoirousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.
- χοῖροιchoiroinoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: pigs
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.