H3293 יַעַר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 58 KJV occurrences
יַעַר
yaʻar · yah'-ar
Definition
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
KJV Renderings
(honey-) comb, forest, wood.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 58)
- Deuteronomy 19:5As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
- 2 Samuel 18:8For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
- 1 Chronicles 16:33Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
- Psalms 104:20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
- Isaiah 10:19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
- Isaiah 37:24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
- Jeremiah 21:14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
- Ezekiel 34:25And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.