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Boar
Occurs only in Ps 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered “swine” (Lev 11:7; Deut 14:8; Prov 11:22; Isa 65:4; Isa 66:3, Isa 66:17). The Hebrews abhorred swine’s flesh, and accordingly none of these animals were reared, except in the district beyond the Sea of Galilee. In the psalm quoted above the powers that destroyed the Jewish nation are compared to wild boars and wild beasts of the field.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
