Swine - choiros

Definition: choiros (khoy'-ros) Uncountable Noun, Masculine - Swine, a pig.

Diagram: All live animals in Mark are metaphors for people or spirits. The swine in Mark are not animals, they are a representative group of Roman soldiers tangent to many other signs in the story.

Mk 05:11	Now there was, with regard to the "mountain," a "great herd of pigs" feeding.
Mk 05:12	Send us into the pigs so that we may enter into them.
Mk 05:13b	and having come out, the "unclean spirits" entered into the "pigs" ...
Mk 05:16b	and about the pigs.

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