(Heʹzir) [Pig; Boar].

1. The priest whose paternal house was chosen by lot for the 17th of the 24 priestly service divisions organized toward the end of David’s reign.​—1Ch 24:1, 3, 5-7, 15.

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