Strong H3293H3293Aיַ֫עַר

wood

Transliteration: ya‛ar
Pronunciation: yah'-ar
Morphology: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

forest, wood, thicket, wooded height
Also means: ya.or (יָעוֹר "wood" H3264)

General definition

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.

In the Bible

Strong H3293A appears in 47 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

forest32
wood15

First verses

Deuteronomy 19:5
As 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:
Joshua 17:15
And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Joshua 17:18
But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.
1 Samuel 22:5
And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.
2 Samuel 18:8
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
2 Kings 2:24
And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings 19:23
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
1 Chronicles 16:33
Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth.
Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms 80:13
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms 83:14
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Psalms 96:12
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
Song of Songs 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Isaiah 7:2
And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah 10:18
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
Isaiah 10:19
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.