King James Version
Mark 5:11 in the King James Version says “Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.” — study this verse from Mark chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.”
Mark 5:11 · KJV
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
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“nigh”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
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