"Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it. ... Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit? The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it."
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This is the only Biblical allusion to the wild boar (חֲזִיר מִיָּ֑עַר ḥăzîr mîyā‘ar, 'forest pig'); see
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