noun · feminine

huas

Greekὗς (hus)

Strong’sG5300

a hog, boar, or sow

stem hu-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

sow1×

What it means

ὗς, ὑός, ὁ, ἡ

[in LXX for חֲזִיר;]

swine: fem. (sow), II Pe 2:22,†

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.

Every form

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

hustem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

huas“sow”subjectnominative singular1×

2 Peter 2:22“sow”sumbainatē autoi tem tau alēthau paroimiau; Kuōnos epistrefaratos epi tem idiem exeramem, kai; Huas loueratas eis kulismon borborou.Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”