Honeycomb
יַעְרָהStrong’s H3295yaarah (ya-a-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yaarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “honeycomb of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.”
Meaning
- Foresthoneycomb (meton)
How it's translated
- in honeycomb of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יַעְרָה yaarah · honeycomb
1) forest 1a) honeycomb (meton)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “honeycomb” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HON'EY-COMB, noun
A substance of a firm, close texture, formed by bees into hexagonal cells for repositories of honey, and for the eggs which produce their young.
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.