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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 man 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 [fn]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 [fn]clear it, and to its [fn]farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall dispossess the Canaanites, even though they have chariots of iron and even though they are strong.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - Now all the people of the land entered the forest H3293, and there was honey on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:26 - So the people entered the forest H3293, and behold, there was a flow of honey; but no man put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the sworn oath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - And the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the fortress; go, and enter into the land of Judah.” So David went and entered into the forest H3293 of Hereth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:6 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - And the battle there was scattered 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 cast him into [fn]a deep pit in the forest H3293 and set over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - And he built the house of the forest H3293 of Lebanon; its length was [fn]100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest H3293 of Lebanon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - Now 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. None was of silver; it was not considered [fn]valuable in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - Then he looked behind him and saw them. And he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two female bears came out of the woods H3293 and tore up forty-two lads of [fn]their number.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 -

‘Through your messengers you have [fn]reproached 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 [fn]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I [fn]entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest H3293.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:33 -

Then the trees of the forest H3293 will sing for joy before Yahweh;

For He is coming to judge the earth.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]300 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 - Now 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 Yahweh makes the deer to calve

And strips the forests H3293 bare;

And in His temple everything says, “Glory!”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:10 -

“For every beast of the forest H3293 is Mine,

The cattle on a thousand hills.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:13 -

A boar from the forest H3293 devours it

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 burns up the mountains,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 96:12 -

Let the field exult, 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 so that it becomes night,

In which all the beasts of the forest H3293 creep about.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 132:6 -

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah,

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

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

[fn]Like an [fn]apple tree among the trees of the forest H3293,

So is my beloved among the sons.

In his shade I had great desire and sat down,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 -

[fn]I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;

I have picked 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]imbibe deeply, O lovers.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - When it was told to the house of David, saying, “[fn]The Arameans have camped in Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest H3293 shake before the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:18 -

For wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns;

It even 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 bring to an end the glory of his forest H3293 and of his fruitful orchard, both soul and body,

And it will be as when a sick man 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 [fn]by the Mighty One.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:13 -

The [fn]oracle about [fn]Arabia.

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

O caravans of Dedanites.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:8 -

And He revealed the [fn]defense of Judah.

In that day you looked to 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 fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard will be counted 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 fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard is counted 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 [fn]reproached 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 cypresses.

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

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - In order to cut cedars for himself, he takes a [fn]cypress or an oak and [fn]raises it for himself among the trees of the forest H3293. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:23 -

Shout for joy, O heavens, for Yahweh has done it!

Make a loud shout, you lower parts of the earth;

Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,

O forest H3293, and every tree in it;

For Yahweh has redeemed Jacob

And in Israel He shows forth His beautiful glory.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:9 -

All you beasts of the field,

All you beasts in the forest H3293,

Come to eat.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:6 -

Therefore a lion from the forest H3293 will strike them down;

A wolf of the deserts will devastate them;

A leopard is watching their cities.

Everyone who goes out of them will be torn in pieces

Because their transgressions are many;

Their acts of faithlessness are mighty.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:3 -

For the statutes of the peoples are vanity

Because 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 given forth its voice 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 Yahweh,

“And I will kindle a fire in its forest H3293

That it may devour all its surroundings.”’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - [fn]Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus Yahweh of hosts has said,

“Zion will be plowed as a field,

And Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 -

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

“Surely it will no longer be searched out,

Even though [fn]they are now more numerous than locusts

And are without number.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:2 - “Son of man, 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, thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘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 [fn]Teman and speak, dripping out words, against the south and prophesy against the forest H3293 [fn]land of the Negev

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