12 occurrences

'Pigs' in the Bible

"Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around [and] tear you to pieces.

So the demons implored him, saying, "If you are going to expel us, send us into the herd of pigs."

And he said to them, "Go!" So they departed [and] went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water.

Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding,

and they implored him, saying, "Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them."

And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out [and] entered into the pigs, and the herd--about two thousand--rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

And those who had seen [it] described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs.

Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding there on the hill, and they implored him that he would permit them to enter into those [pigs]. And he permitted them.

So the demons came out of the man [and] entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.

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גּזל גּוזל 
Gowzal 
Usage: 2

יונה 
Yownah 
Usage: 31

περιστερά 
Peristera 
Usage: 9