Occurrences
Yaʻar occurs 58 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Deuteronomy (1), Joshua (2), 1 Samuel (3), 2 Samuel (3), 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Psalms (6), Ecclesiastes (1), Song of Songs (2), Isaiah (14), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (6), Hosea (1), Amos (1), Micah (3), Zechariah (1)
- Deuteronomy 19:5 — As when a man goeth into the wood (בַיַּעַר֮) 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 (הַיַּ֔עְרָה) 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 (יַ֣עַר), 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 — And all they of the land came to a wood (בַיָּ֑עַר); and there was honey upon the ground.
- 1 Samuel 14:26 — And when the people were come into the wood (הַיַּ֔עַר), behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
- 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 (יַ֥עַר) of Hareth.
- 2 Samuel 18:6 — So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood (בְּיַ֥עַר) of Ephraim;
- 2 Samuel 18:8 — For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood (הַיַּ֙עַר֙) 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 (בַיַּ֙עַר֙), and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
- 1 Kings 7:2 — He built also the house of the forest (יַ֣עַר) 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 — 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 (יַ֥עַר) of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 10:21 — And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest (יַ֥עַר) of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 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 (הַיַּ֔עַר), 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 (יַ֖עַר) of his Carmel.
- 1 Chronicles 16:33 — Then shall the trees of the wood (הַיָּ֑עַר) sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
- 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 the forest (יַ֥עַר) of Lebanon.
- 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 (יַ֥עַר) 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 — For every beast of the forest (יָ֑עַר) is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
- Psalms 80:13 — The boar out of the wood (מִיָּ֑עַר) doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
- Psalms 83:14 — As the fire burneth a wood (יָ֑עַר), 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 (יָֽעַר) rejoice
- Psalms 104:20 — Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest (יָֽעַר) do creep forth.
- Psalms 132:6 — Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood (יָֽעַר).
- Ecclesiastes 2:6 — I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood (יַ֖עַר) that bringeth forth trees:
- Song of Songs 2:3 — As the apple tree among the trees of the wood (הַיַּ֔עַר), 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 Songs 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 (יַעְרִי֙) with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
- 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 (יַ֖עַר) 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 (הַיַּ֔עַר), and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:18 — And shall consume the glory of his forest (יַעְרוֹ֙), 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 (יַעְר֖וֹ) shall be few, that a child may write them.
- Isaiah 10:34 — And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest (הַיַּ֖עַר) with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
- Isaiah 21:13 — The burden upon Arabia. In the forest (בַּיַּ֤עַר) in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.
- 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 (הַיָּֽעַר).
- 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 (לַיַּ֥עַר)?
- 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 (לַיַּ֥עַר).
- Isaiah 32:19 — When it shall hail, coming down on the forest (הַיָּ֑עַר); and the city shall be low in a low place.
- 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, 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 (יַ֖עַר) of his Carmel.
- 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 (יָ֑עַר): he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
- 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 (יַ֖עַר), and every tree therein: for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
- Isaiah 56:9 — All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest (בַּיָּֽעַר).
- Jeremiah 5:6 — Wherefore a lion out of the forest (מִיַּ֗עַר) 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 — For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest (מִיַּ֣עַר), the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
- Jeremiah 12:8 — Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest (בַיָּ֑עַר); it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
- 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 (בְּיַעְרָ֔הּ) thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
- 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 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 (יָֽעַר).
- Jeremiah 46:23 — They shall cut down her forest (יַעְרָהּ֙), saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
- 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 (הַיָּֽעַר)?
- Ezekiel 15:6 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest (הַיַּ֔עַר), which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 20:46 — Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest (יַ֥עַר) of the south field;
- Ezekiel 20:47 — And say to the forest (לְיַ֣עַר) 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.