BOANEROES (1)5'a-nErIez), (Gr. Boavep.v/r, bo an-erg-es', explained as "sons of thunder," Mark a surname given by Christ to Tames and John, probably on account of their fervid, impetu ous spirit (Comp. Luke ix:54, and see Olshausen thereon).
BOAR (bol), (Heb. khaz-eer'), (Gr. xorpor, khoy'ros). Occurs in Lev. xi:7; Deut. xiv:8; Ps. lxxx:13; Prov, xi:22; Is. lx':4; Ixvi:i, 17.
The Hebrew. Egyptian. Arabian, Phcrnician and other neighboring nations abstained from hog's flesh, and consequently, excepting in Egypt, and (at a later period) beyond the Sea of Galilee, no domesticated swine were reared. In Egypt, where swineherds were treated as the lowest of men, even to a denial of admission into the temples, and where to have been touched by a swine defiled the the person nearly as much as it did a Hebrew, it is difficult to conjecture for what purpose these animals were kept so abundantly, as it appears by the monumental pictures they were; for the mere service of treading down seed in the de posited mud of the Nile when the inundation sub sided, the only purpose alleged, cannot be admitted as a sufficient explanation of the fact. Although in
Palestine, Syria. and Phcenicia hogs were rarely domesticated, wild boars are often mentioned in the Scriptures, and they were frequent in the time of the Crusades. The wild boar of the East, though commonly smaller than the old breeds of domestic swine, grows occasionally to a very large size. it is passive while unmolested, but vindictive and fierce when roused. The ears of the species are small, and rather rounded, the snout broad, the tusks very prominent, the tail tortuous, and the color dark ashy, the ridge of the back bearing a profusion of long bristles. it is doubtful whether this species is the same as that of Europe, for the farrow are not striped; most likely it is identical with the wild hog of India