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Strong's H3293 יַעַר (yaar)

Yaar means “forest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H3293
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 58
Books 18

Strong's H3293 Quick Answer

Strong's H3293 יַעַר (ya`ar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ya`ar (yah'-ar) n-m. 1. a copse of bushes 2. (hence) a forest It has 58 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include forest, for, trees, and honey. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
ya`ar (yah'-ar) n-m. 1. a copse of bushes 2. (hence) a forest
Usage
58 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
forest, for, trees, and honey

Meaning and Definition

ya`ar (yah'-ar) n-m. 1. a copse of bushes 2. (hence) a forest 3. (hence) honey in the comb (as hived in trees) [from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure] KJV: (honey-)comb, forest, wood.

Original Word
יַעַר
Transliteration
ya`ar
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3293. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H3293 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ya`ar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

forest 1 Samuel 22:5 37× for Joshua 17:15 trees 1 Chronicles 16:33 honey 1 Samuel 14:25

How Strong's H3293 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 58 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3293 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3293 in the Old Testament

58 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 19:5 KJV

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 KJV

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 KJV

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.

Usage Excerpts

First 58 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3293.

Deuteronomy 19:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 14:25 Old Testament, KJV
And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
1 Samuel 14:26 Old Testament, KJV
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 oath.
1 Samuel 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
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 18:6 Old Testament, KJV
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
2 Samuel 18:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Kings 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings 10:17 Old Testament, KJV
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 of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:21 Old Testament, KJV
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 were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
2 Kings 2:24 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 the forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles 9:20 Old Testament, KJV
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: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Psalms 50:10 Old Testament, KJV
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Psalms 80:13 Old Testament, KJV
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Psalms 83:14 Old Testament, KJV
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
Psalms 96:12 Old Testament, KJV
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Psalms 104:20 Old Testament, KJV
Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
Psalms 132:6 Old Testament, KJV
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Ecclesiastes 2:6 Old Testament, KJV
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
Song of Solomon 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Song of Solomon 5:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Isaiah 7:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 fainteth.
Isaiah 10:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Isaiah 10:34 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
Isaiah 21:13 Old Testament, KJV
The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
Isaiah 22:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.
Isaiah 37:24 Old Testament, KJV
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, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
Isaiah 44:14 Old Testament, KJV
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Isaiah 44:23 Old Testament, KJV
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 every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Isaiah 56:9 Old Testament, KJV
All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.
Jeremiah 5:6 Old Testament, KJV
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: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
Jeremiah 10:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
Jeremiah 21:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 devour all things round about it.
Jeremiah 26:18 Old Testament, KJV
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 hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 46:23 Old Testament, KJV
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
Ezekiel 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 20:46 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Ezekiel 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
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 wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel 39:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Hosea 2:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Amos 3:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 of the forest.
Micah 5:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.
Micah 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Zechariah 11:2 Old Testament, KJV
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 down.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3293, grouped by book.

Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Old Testament
Song of Solomon 2 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 14 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 6 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 3 usages, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H3293 FAQ

What does yaar (יַעַר) mean?

Yaar (Strong's H3293) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "forest". ya`ar (yah'-ar) n-m. 1. a copse of bushes 2. (hence) a forest

How many times is yaar (יַעַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 58 linked usages for Strong's H3293 across 18 books.

Where can I study yaar (יַעַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3293 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate yaar (יַעַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as forest, for, trees, and honey. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.