Hezir — the meaning of the Hebrew name חֵזִיר

חֵזִיר

Chêzîyr · pronounced khay-zeer' · Strong's H2387 · a man

Hezir means Chezir, the name of two Israelites.

Built from

חֲזִיר chăzîyr (the same as, H2386) — a hog (perhaps as penned) open in the lexicon ›

from the same as H2386; perhaps protected; Chezir, the name of two Israelites.

1Chr 24:15 The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, (KJV)

2 occurrences in 2 verses — 1 Chronicles, Nehemiah

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Definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); occurrences from the Westminster Leningrad Codex via Hebrew Explorer's interlinear.

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