swine
cha.zir denotes a swine, appearing in dietary instructions, eating and offering contexts, and a proverb’s animal comparison.
The attested usage denotes a swine as an animal: it is identified as unclean in dietary instructions, appears in references to its flesh and blood, and supplies the animal image in a proverb. The supplied Psalm verse contains the form, though its APB rendering does not display the surrounding clause involving it.
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The animal in dietary, ritual, and figurative contexts · dominant
The singular absolute noun identifies the animal in the dietary clauses of Deuteronomy 14:8 and Leviticus 11:7, where the APB renders it “swine” and describes it as unclean. In Isaiah 65:4, Isaiah 66:17, and Isaiah 66:3, the APB renders clauses about eating its flesh or offering its blood; Proverbs 11:22 uses “a pig's snout” in its comparison. Psalm 80:14 also contains the singular absolute form, but the supplied APB verse does not make its particular clause visible.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the animal as “swine,” while Proverbs 11:22 has “a pig's snout” in the proverb. Psalm 80:14 contains the form in the supplied data, but its APB rendering does not show a corresponding animal phrase.