Wood
יָעוֹרStrong’s H3293yaor (ya-or)
Appears in 59 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaor is the Hebrew word usually translated “forest”, “forest of” and “forest his”. It appears in 59 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Wood, forest, thicket, wooded height
- Honeycomb
How it's translated
- the forest 11
- forest of 9
- forest 8
- in the forest 6
- a forest 5
- forest his 2
- to forest 2
- from a forest 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 14
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 6
- Ezekiel 6
- 1 Samuel 3
- 2 Samuel 3
18 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 19:5As 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 17:15And 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 17:18But 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 14:25And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground.
- 1 Samuel 14:26And 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 22:5And 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.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָעוֹר yaor · wood
wood, forest, thicket, wooded height Another spelling of ya.ar (יַ֫עַר "wood" H3293A)
יַ֫עַר yaar · honeycomb
honeycomb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wood” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WOOD, adjective
Mad; furious.
All definitions and other forms of “wood”
WOOD, noun
- A large and thick collection of trees; a forest.
- The substance of trees; the hard substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark.
- Trees cut or sawed for the fire. wood is yet the principal fuel in the United States.
- An idol. Habakkuk 2:19
WOOD, verb intransitive
To supply or get supplies of wood
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.