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Lexicon :: Strong's H3293 - yaʿar

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יַעַר
Transliteration
yaʿar
Pronunciation
yah'-ar
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure
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TWOT Reference: 888,889

Strong’s Definitions

יַעַר yaʻar, yah'-ar; from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees):—(honey-) comb, forest, wood.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x

The KJV translates Strong's H3293 in the following manner: forest (37x), wood (19x), forests (1x), honeycomb (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 58x
The KJV translates Strong's H3293 in the following manner: forest (37x), wood (19x), forests (1x), honeycomb (1x).

  1. forest, wood, thicket, wooded height

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יַעַר yaʻar, yah'-ar; from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees):—(honey-) comb, forest, wood.
STRONGS H3293: Abbreviations
† II. יַ֫עַר noun [masculine] honeycomb, — absolute יַעַר 1 Samuel 14:25, 26; suffix יַעְרִי Songs 5:1; — honeycomb, containing honey 1 Samuel 14:25 (where read הַשָּׂדֶה עַל־פְּנֵי הָיָה וְיַעַר with Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit in KauAT, instead of see as in MT); וַיָּבוֺא העם אֶלהַֿיַּעַר 1 Samuel 14:26 (|| דבשׁ 1 Samuel 14:25) and when the people came to the honeycomb behold its bees had departed (see Greek Version of the LXX We Dr Kit VB); אָכַלְתִּי יַעְרִי עִםדִּֿבְשִׁי Songs 5:1; see also I.יַעֲרָה.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Samuel

14:25; 14:25; 14:25; 14:26; 14:26

Song of Songs

5:1; 5:1

H3293

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Strong's Number H3293 matches the Hebrew יַעַר (yaʿar),
which occurs 59 times in 59 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 19:5–Eze 20:46)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - Now when all the people[fn] came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:6 - So the army went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - The battle spread over the face of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - And they took Absalom and threw him into a great pit in the forest and raised over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every one to his own home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits[fn] and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four[fn] rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas[fn] of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most fruitful forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:33 - Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy
before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:9 - The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth[fn]
and strips the forests bare,
and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 - For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:13 - The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:14 - As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 96:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:12 - let the field exult, and everything in it!
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 - You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the beasts of the forest creep about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 132:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:6 - Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
we found it in the fields of Jaar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 - She
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat in his shadow,
and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 - He
I came to my garden, my sister, my bride,
I gathered my myrrh with my spice,
I ate my honeycomb with my honey,
I drank my wine with my milk.

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Eat, friends, drink,
and be drunk with love!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with[fn] Ephraim,” the heart of Ahaz[fn] and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 - For wickedness burns like a fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 - The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land
the LORD will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19 - The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 - He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe,
and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:13 - The oracle concerning Arabia.
In the thickets in Arabia you will lodge,
O caravans of Dedanites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 - He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - Is it not yet a very little while
until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 - until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field,
and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 - And it will hail when the forest falls down,
and the city will be utterly laid low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 - By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 - Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it;
shout, O depths of the earth;
break forth into singing, O mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it!
For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,
and will be glorified[fn] in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:9 - All you beasts of the field, come to devour—
all you beasts in the forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 - Therefore a lion from the forest shall strike them down;
a wolf from the desert shall devastate them.
A leopard is watching their cities;
everyone who goes out of them shall be torn in pieces,
because their transgressions are many,
their apostasies are great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 - for the customs of the peoples are vanity.[fn]
A tree from the forest is cut down
and worked with an axe by the hands of a craftsman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 - My heritage has become to me
like a lion in the forest;
she has lifted up her voice against me;
therefore I hate her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:14 - I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds,
declares the LORD;
I will kindle a fire in her forest,
and it shall devour all that is around her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - “Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts,
“‘Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - They shall cut down her forest,
declares the LORD,
though it is impenetrable,
because they are more numerous than locusts;
they are without number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, how does the wood of the vine surpass any wood, the vine branch that is among the trees of the forest?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:46 - “Son of man, set your face toward the southland;[fn] preach against the south, and prophesy against the forest land in the Negeb.

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