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This word occurs only in Psalms 80:13. The same Hebrew word is elsewhere rendered “swine” (Lev. 11:7; Deuteronomy 14:8; Prov. 11:22; Isa. 65:4; 66:3, 17).


In the psalm quoted above, the powers that destroyed the Jewish nation are compared to wild boars and wild beasts of the field.