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Swine @ (Heb. hazir), regarded as the most unclean and the most abhorred of all animals kjv@Leviticus:11:7; kjv@Isaiah:65:4 kjv@Isaiah:66:3 kjv@Isaiah:66:17; kjv@Luke:15:15-16). A herd of swine were drowned in the Sea of Galilee kjv@Luke:8:32-33). Spoken of figuratively in kjv@Matthew:7:6 (see kjv@Proverbs:11:22). It is frequently mentioned as a wild animal, and is evidently the wild boar (Arab. khanzir), which is common among the marshes of the Jordan valley kjv@Psalms:80:13).