HEZIR

(Heʹzir) [pig, boar].

1. The priest whose paternal house was chosen by lot for the seventeenth of the twenty-four priestly service divisions organized toward the end of David’s reign.—1 Chron. 24:1, 3, 5-7, 15.

2. One of the “heads of the people” whose descendant, if not himself, in Nehemiah’s time supported the resolution to be true to Jehovah.—Neh. 9:38; 10:1, 14, 20.