Lexicon :: Strong's H3293 - yaʿar

“If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”

“because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

Everyone[fn] went into the forest, and there was honey on the ground.

Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Don’t stay in the stronghold. Leave and return to the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

Then David’s forces marched into the field to engage Israel in battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.

The battle spread over the entire area, and that day the forest claimed more people than the sword.

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and raised up a huge mound of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was one hundred fifty feet[fn] long, seventy-five feet[fn] wide, and forty-five feet[fn] high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.

He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; nearly four pounds[fn] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

He turned around, looked at them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the children.

“You have mocked the Lord[fn] through[fn] your messengers.

You have said, ‘With my many chariots

I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars,

its choice cypress trees.

I came to its farthest outpost,

its densest forest.

Then the trees of the forest will shout for joy before the LORD,

for he is coming to judge the earth.

He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 7 ¹/₂ pounds[fn] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth[fn]

and strips the woodlands bare.

In his temple all cry, “Glory! ”

“for every animal of the forest is mine,

the cattle on a thousand hills.

Boars from the forest tear at it

and creatures of the field feed on it.

As fire burns a forest,

as a flame blazes through mountains,

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate.

Then all the trees of the forest will shout for joy

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the forest animals stir.

We heard of the ark in Ephrathah;[fn]

we found it in the fields of Jaar.[fn]

I constructed reservoirs for myself from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees.

Like an apricot[fn] tree among the trees of the forest,

so is my love among the young men.

I delight to sit in his shade,

and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

I have come to my garden ​— ​my sister, my bride.

I gather[fn] my myrrh with my spices.

I eat my honeycomb with my honey.

I drink my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends!

Drink, be intoxicated with caresses![fn]

When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz[fn] and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.

For wickedness burns like a fire

that consumes thorns and briers

and kindles the forest thickets

so that they go up in a column of smoke.

He will completely destroy

the glory of its forests and orchards

as a sickness consumes a person.

He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax,

and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.

A pronouncement concerning Arabia:

In the desert[fn] brush

you will camp for the night,

you caravans of Dedanites.

He removed the defenses of Judah.

On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

Isn’t it true that in just a little while

Lebanon will become an orchard,

and the orchard will seem like a forest?

until the Spirit[fn] from on high is poured out on us.

Then the desert will become an orchard,

and the orchard will seem like a forest.

But hail will level the forest,[fn]

and the city will sink into the depths.

“You have mocked the Lord through your servants.

You have said, “With my many chariots

I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

to the far recesses of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars,

its choice cypress trees.

I came to its distant heights,

its densest forest.

He cuts down[fn] cedars for his use,

or he takes a cypress or an oak.

He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest.

He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

Rejoice, heavens, for the LORD has acted;

shout, depths of the earth.

Break out into singing, mountains,

forest, and every tree in it.

For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,

and glorifies himself through Israel.

All you animals of the field and forest,

come and eat!

Therefore, a lion from the forest will strike them down.

A wolf from arid plains will ravage them.

A leopard stalks their cities.

Anyone who leaves them will be torn to pieces

because their rebellious acts are many,

their unfaithful deeds numerous.

for the customs of the peoples are worthless.

Someone cuts down a tree from the forest;

it is worked by the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

My inheritance has behaved toward me

like a lion in the forest.

She has roared against me.

Therefore, I hate her.

I will punish you according to what you have done —

this is the LORD’s declaration.

I will kindle a fire in your forest

that will consume everything around it.’ ”

“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of King Hezekiah of Judah and said to all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the LORD of Armies says:

Zion will be plowed like a field,

Jerusalem will become ruins,

and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.’

They will cut down her forest —

this is the LORD’s declaration —

though it is dense,

for they are more numerous than locusts;

they cannot be counted.

“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine, that branch among the trees of the forest, compare to any other wood?

Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says, “Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire as fuel, so I will give up the residents of Jerusalem.

“Son of man, face the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest land in the Negev,