GreekG5300Noun (Feminine)
ὗς
hus
“sow”
1Occurrences
G5300Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
a hog ("swine")
apparently a primary word;
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
swine: fem. (sow)
LXX: for חֲזִיר
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
G:N-F
Full Description
Greek Noun, Feminine
Occurrences
ὗς appears 1 time in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
2 Peter
1
Key Passages
2 Peter 2:22BSB
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.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.