- χοῖρος
- χοῖρος, ου, ὁ (Hom. et al.; ins, pap; Sym. Is 65:4 and 66:3) ‘young swine’ then swine gener. (so Epict. 4, 11, 29; Plut., Cicero 864 [7, 6]; BGU 92, 7 [II A.D.]; 649, 7 al. in pap; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 137; TestJud 2:5) Mt 8:30–32; Mk 5:11–13, 16 (AHarnack, Zu Mk 5:11–13: ZNW 8, 1907, 162; OBauernfeind, Die Worte der Dämonen im Mt 1927); Lk 8:32f; 15:15f. W. dogs: as unclean animals Ox 840, 33 (JJeremias, ConNeot 11, ’47, 105: fig.); in a proverb Mt 7:6 (Theophyl. Sim., Ep. 20 τὰ δῶρα τοῖς χοίροις διένειμε; FPerles, ZNW 25, 1926, 163f; APerry, ET 46, ’35, 381). The prohibition against eating pork, and its interpretation B 10:1, 3ab, 10.—On swine and adherents of Mosaic dietary law s. Billerb. I 448ff; 492f; KRengstorf, Rabb. Texte 1. Reihe III ’33ff, p. 36f.—Kl. Pauly V 43–47; BHHW III 1748f.—B. 161. DELG. M-M.
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