noun · feminine
huas
Strong’sG5300
a hog, boar, or sow
stem hu-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὗς, ὑός, ὁ, ἡ
[in LXX for חֲזִיר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5300 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhoos
a hog ("swine")
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamessow.
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
Agenitive ὑός [ῠ]; or σῦς, σῦν, genitive σῠός, ὁ and ἡ: Refs 8th c.BC+ only for the sake of meter: in Refs 5th c.BC+ is the prevailing form, as also at Rhodes, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὖς Refs 7th c.BC+; both forms in Refs 5th c.BC+, see below; ὗς in LXX+3rd c.BC+ only as see reading in LXX+2nd c.BC+ (συναγρειον falsa lectio inRefs 5th c.BC+; but σῦς (accusative σῦν) in Refs 1st c.BC+: plural, nominative ὕες, σύε; accusative ὕας, σύας, Attic dialect ὗς Refs 8th c.BC+; genitive ὑῶν, συῶ; dative ὑσί (συσί Refs 8th c.BC+, but Epic dialect also ὕεσσι Refs 8th c.BC+:—the wild swine, of the boar, σῦν ἄγριον ἀργιόδοντα Refs 8th c.BC+; also called σῦς κάπριος or κάπρος, (see entry).; compare also χλούνη; of the sow, συὸς ληϊβοτείρης Refs 8th c.BC+; ὕες (variant{ὗς}) ἄγριαι Refs 4th c.BC+
A.2 of the domesticated animal, Refs 8th c.BC+; the hogs being eaten, ὕες θαλέθοντες ἀλοιφῇ Refs 8th c.BC+; they were fed on acorns, Refs 8th c.BC+; also on μῆλα πλατανίστινα, Refs 2nd c.AD+sus foeta, Refs 8th c.BC+
A.3 proverbs, Βοιωτία ὗς, of stupidity (compare συοβοιωτοί), Refs 5th c.BC+ (σύας); ὗς ποτ᾽ Ἀθαναίαν ἔριν ἤρισεν (or more shortly ἡ ὗς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, Latin sus Minervam, Refs 1st c.AD+, of dunces setting themselves up against wise men, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὗς διὰ ῥόδων 'a bull in a china-shop', Refs 5th c.BC+; ὗς ἐκώμασε, of arrogant and insolent behaviour, Refs 9th c.AD+; ὗς ὑπὸ ῥόπαλον δραμεῖται, of one who runs wilfully into destruction, Dinoloch.14; παχὺς ὗς ἔκειτ᾽ ἐπὶ στόμα (compare βοῦς VIII) Refs 4th c.BC+; λύσω τὴν ἐμαυτῆς ὗν I will give my rage vent ('go the whole hog'), Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II ={ὕαινα}Refs 5th c.BC+
A.III see at {ὕσγη}. (Cf. Latin σῡς, ORefs 5th c.BC+ sú, sw-in: perhaps I.-Refs 5th c.BC+ sū-s feminine 'mother', cf. Sanskrit sū-s 'mother', sū-te 'bring forth (young)'; change of meaning as in Polish maciora (1) 'mother', (2) 'sow', and in Sardinian mardi 'sow', from mater; Sanskrit sū-s is also masculine, and σῦς is difficult.)
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 | huas1×Ὗς | huais |
| object accusative | huan | huain |
| direct address vocative | huar | huair |
| of, belonging to genitive | huau | huaiu |
| to, for dative | hua | huai |
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
hua 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
huas“sow”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Peter 2:22… epistrefarantos epi tem idiem exeramem, kai; Huas louerantas eis kulismon borborou.… returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to …