Chêzîyr — H2387

Definition

masculine proper noun

Chezir, the name of two Israelites

1. Hezir = "swine"
2. a priest in the time of David, leader of the 17th monthly course
3. one of the heads of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

Usually translated as

Hezir

Origin

from the same as H2386; perhaps protected

• Same as Chăzîyr (H2386)

Occurrences

Chêzîyr occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (1), Nehemiah (1)

• 1 Chronicles 24:15 — The seventeenth to Hezir (לְחֵזִיר֙), the eighteenth to Aphses,
• Nehemiah 10:20 — Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir (חֵזִֽיר),