# יַעַר (yaar)

Israeli respelling: ya-ar. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3293. 58 Old Testament occurrences.

a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)

King James renderings: (honey-) comb, forest, wood.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/yaar-h3293

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Joshua 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Joshua 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Samuel 14:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/25) — And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
- [1 Samuel 14:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/26) — And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oat…
- [1 Samuel 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [2 Samuel 18:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/18/6) — So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
- [2 Samuel 18:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Kings 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/2) — He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the h…
- [1 Kings 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/17) — And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest…
- [1 Kings 10:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/21) — And 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 wer…
- [2 Kings 2:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 ta…
- [2 Kings 19:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 mountai…
- [1 Chronicles 16:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [2 Chronicles 9:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/16) — And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of t…
- [2 Chronicles 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/20) — And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: non…
- [Psalms 29:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/29/9) — The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
- [Psalms 50:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/50/10) — For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
- [Psalms 83:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/14) — As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
- [Psalms 96:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/20) — Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
- [Psalms 132:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/132/6) — Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
- [Ecclesiastes 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/6) — I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- [Song of Solomon 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/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 fru…
- [Song of Solomon 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/5/1) — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have dru…
- [Isaiah 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Isaiah 9:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 m…
- [Isaiah 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 standard-bearer faint…
- [Isaiah 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/19) — And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
- [Isaiah 10:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/34) — And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
- [Isaiah 21:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/21/13) — The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- [Isaiah 22:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/22/8) — And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
- [Isaiah 29:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/29/17) — Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
- [Isaiah 32:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/15) — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
- [Isaiah 32:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/32/19) — When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
- [Isaiah 37:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/24) — By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains,…
- [Isaiah 44:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/14) — He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he plantet…
- [Isaiah 44:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/23) — Sing, O ye heavens; for the LORD hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and ev…
- [Isaiah 56:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/9) — All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
- [Jeremiah 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/6) — Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: e…
- [Jeremiah 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/10/3) — For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
- [Jeremiah 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/8) — Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
- [Jeremiah 21:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/21/14) — But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall d…
- [Jeremiah 26:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/26/18) — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of…
- [Jeremiah 46:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/23) — They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumera…
- [Ezekiel 15:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/15/2) — Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?
- [Ezekiel 15:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/15/6) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give…
- [Ezekiel 20:46](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/46) — Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
- [Ezekiel 20:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/20/47) — And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall…
- [Ezekiel 34:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/34/25) — And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the…
- [Ezekiel 39:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/10) — So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and t…
- [Hosea 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/2/12) — And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make t…
- [Amos 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/4) — Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
- [Micah 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/3/12) — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places…
- [Micah 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/8) — And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion…
- [Micah 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/14) — Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bas…
- [Zechariah 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/2) — Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come d…