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HEBREW: 3293 rey ya`ar
ISBE: JAAR

Jaar

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a town of Benjamin / Judah 12 km WNW of Jerusalem
Google Maps: Jaar (31° 46´, 34° 59´);

Hebrew

Strongs #03293: rey ya`ar

1) forest, wood, thicket, wooded height

3293 ya`ar 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): KJV -- (honey-)comb, forest, wood.

JAAR [isbe]

JAAR - ja'-ar (ya`ar, "forest" or "wood"): Is only once taken as a proper name (Ps 132:6 the Revised Version margin), "We found it in the field of Jaar." It may be a shortened form of the name Kiriath-jearim, where the ark had rested 20 years.

See KIRIATH-JEARIM.




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