noun · masculine
choiros
Strong’sG5519
swine
stem choir-12 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Χοῖρος means a pig, hog, or swine 1234, the ordinary word for the animal kept or herded in groups, as reflected in the New Testament passages describing herds of swine 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
** χοῖρος, -ου, ὁ
[in Sm.: Is 65:4 66:3;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5519 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkhoy'-ros
a hog
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesswine.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἡ Refs 6th c.BC+:— young pig, porker (younger than δέλφαξ, Refs 8th c.BC+; offered as one of the smaller sacrifices, Refs 5th c.BC+
b generally, ={ὗς},{σῦς}, swine, ἤδη δέλφακες, χοῖροι δὲ τοῖσιν ἄλλοις NT+5th c.BC+
2 pudenda muliebria, frequently in Comedy texts poets, who are always punning on the word and its compounds, Refs 5th c.BC+ {χοιρόσακον}, etc.; said to be a Corinthian usage, Refs
II a fish of the Nile, Refs 1st c.BC+ at Title Page (Perh. for ĝhoryo- 'grey', cf. Norse griss 'sucking-pig', OHG grīs 'grey', orRefs 2nd c.AD+ de[rmacr] 'pig'.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | choiros | choirois1×χοῖροι |
| object accusative | choiron | choiroin5×χοίρους |
| direct address vocative | choiror | choiroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | choirou | choiroiu6×χοίρων |
| to, for dative | choiro | choiroi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
choiro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
choirois“pigs”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 15:16… apo teiu keratieiu heiu esthiale tois choirois, kai oudenos dōate auto.… his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would …
choiroin“pigs”objectaccusative plural5×
Matthew 8:32… tois de exercharantois aperchala eis toin choiroin; kai idou hormata pantas tas agelas …… came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down …
Mark 5:12… auton legarōntois; Pempasar nin eis toin choiroin, hina eis autoin eiserchaneia.… begged Jesus, “Send us to the pigs, so that we may enter them.”
Mark 5:13… pneumeim teim akatharteim eiserchala eis toin choiroin, kai hormata tas agelas kata tou …… came out and went into the pigs, and the herd of about two …
Luke 8:33… apo tou anthrōpou eiserchala eis toin choiroin, kai hormata tas agelas kata tou …… the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the …
Luke 15:15… auton eis toin agroin autou boskarō choiroin;… into his fields to feed the pigs.
choiroiu“pigs”of, belonging togenitive plural6×
Matthew 7:6“pigs”… balaveia toin margaritoin vu emprosthen toiu choiroiu, mēpote katapatali autoin en toi podoi …… do not throw your pearls before swine. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then …
Matthew 8:30ate de makran apo autoiu agelas choiroiu polloiu boskorōntas.… the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
Matthew 8:31… apostelasar nin eis tan agelan toiu choiroiu.… send us into the herd of pigs.”
Mark 5:11… de ekei pros te ore agelas choiroiu megas boskorōntas;… nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
Mark 5:16… geneta to daimonizorōnto kai peri toiu choiroiu.… demon-possessed man and also to the pigs.
Luke 8:32Ate de ekei agelas choiroiu hikanoiu boskorōntas en te ore; kai …… the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged …