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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a person goes into the forest H3293 with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go [fn]up to the forest H3293 and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:18 - but the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest H3293, you shall clear it, and to its [fn]farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall [fn]drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and though they are strong.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - All the people of the land entered the forest H3293, and there was honey on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - When the people entered the forest H3293, behold, there was honey dripping; but no man put his hand to his mouth, because the people feared the oath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - But Gad the prophet said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold; leave, and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went into the forest H3293 of Hereth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:6 -

Then the people went out to the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest H3293 of Ephraim.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest H3293 devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:17 - And they took Absalom and threw him into [fn]a deep pit in the forest H3293, and erected over him a very large pile of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - He built the house of the timber H3293 from Lebanon; its length was [fn]a hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]three minas of gold on each shield; and the king put them in the house of the timber H3293 of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - Now all King Solomon’s drinking utensils were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the timber H3293 of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered as amounting to anything in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods H3293 and tore up forty-two [fn]of the boys.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 -

‘Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I went up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers.

And I entered its farthest resting place, its thickest forest H3293.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:33 -

Then the trees of the forest H3293 will sing for joy in the presence of the LORD;

For He is coming to judge the earth.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He made three hundred shields of beaten gold, [fn]using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest H3293 of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest H3293 of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered [fn]valuable in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:9 -

The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth

And strips the forests H3293 bare;

And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 -

“For every animal of the forest H3293 is Mine,

The cattle on a thousand hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:13 -

A boar from the forest H3293 eats it away,

And whatever moves in the field feeds on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:14 -

Like fire that burns the forest H3293,

And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:12 -

May the field be jubilant, and all that is in it.

Then all the trees of the forest H3293 will sing for joy

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:20 -

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,

In which all the animals of the forest H3293 [fn]prowl about.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:6 -

Behold, we heard about it in Ephrathah,

We found it in the field of [fn]Jaar H3293.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest H3293 of growing trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:3 -

The Bride

“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest H3293,

So is my beloved among the [fn]young men.

In his shade I took great delight and sat down,

And his fruit was sweet to my [fn]taste.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 -

The Groom

“I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;

I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam.

I have eaten my honeycomb H3293 with my honey;

I have drunk my wine with my milk.

Eat, friends;

Drink and [fn]drink deeply, lovers.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - When it was reported to the house of David, saying, “The Arameans have taken a stand by Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest H3293 shake from the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 -

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns;

It also sets the thickets of the forest H3293 aflame

And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 -

And He will destroy the glory of his forest H3293 and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,

And it will be as when a sick person wastes away.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:19 -

And the rest of the trees of his forest H3293 will be so small in number

That a child could write them down.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 -

He will cut down the thickets of the forest H3293 with an iron axe,

And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:13 -

The pronouncement about Arabia:

In the thickets H3293 of Arabia you [fn]must spend the night,

You caravans of Dedanites.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 -

And He removed the [fn]defense of Judah.

On that day you [fn]depended on the weapons of the house of the forest H3293,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 -

Is it not yet just a little while

[fn]Before Lebanon will be turned into a fertile field,

And the fertile field will be considered as a forest H3293?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:15 -

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,

And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,

And the fertile field is considered as a forest H3293.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:19 -

And it will hail when the forest H3293 comes down,

And the city will be utterly laid low.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 -

“Through your servants you have taunted the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice junipers.

And I will come to its [fn]highest peak, its thickest forest H3293.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He will cut cedars for himself, and he takes a holm-oak or another oak and lets it grow strong for himself among the trees of the forest H3293. He plants a laurel tree, and the rain makes it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 -

Shout for joy, you heavens, for the LORD has done it!

Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth;

Break into a shout of jubilation, you mountains,

Forest H3293, and every tree in it;

For the LORD has redeemed Jacob,

And in Israel He shows His glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:9 -

All you [fn]wild animals,

All you animals in the forest H3293,

Come to eat.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest H3293 will kill them,

A wolf of the deserts will destroy them,

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces,

Because their wrongdoings are many,

Their apostasies are numerous.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the customs of the peoples are futile;

For it is wood cut from the forest H3293,

The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:8 -

“My inheritance has become to Me

Like a lion in the forest H3293;

She has [fn]roared against Me;

Therefore I have come to hate her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:14 -

“But I will punish you according to the [fn]results of your deeds,” declares the LORD,

“And I will kindle a fire in its forest H3293

So that it may devour all its surroundings.”’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - [fn]Micah of Moresheth used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘This is what the LORD of armies has said:

“Zion will be plowed like a field,

And Jerusalem will become heaps of ruins,

And the mountain of the house like the [fn]high places of a forest H3293.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 -

“They have cut down her forest H3293,” declares the LORD;

“Certainly it will no longer be found,

Even though [fn]they are more numerous than locusts

And are without number.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, [fn]how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch which is among the trees of the forest H3293?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:6 - “Therefore, this is what the Lord [fn]GOD says: ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest H3293, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:46 - “Son of man, set your face toward the south, and speak prophetically against the south and prophesy against the forest H3293 [fn]land of the Negev,

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