- Original: יער - Transliteration: Ya`ar - Phonetic: yah'-ar - Definition: 1. forest, wood, thicket, wooded height - Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure - TWOT entry: 888,889 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: 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): - [honey-] comb forest wood. Total KJV Occurrences: 58 • forest, 37 1 Samuel 22:5; 1 Kings 7:2; 1 Kings 10:17; 1 Kings 10:21; 2 Kings 19:23; 2 Chronicles 9:16; 2 Chronicles 9:20; Psalm 50:10; Psalm 104:20; Isaiah 9:18; Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 10:19; Isaiah 10:34; Isaiah 21:13; Isaiah 22:8; Isaiah 29:17; Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 32:19; Isaiah 37:24; Isaiah 44:14; Isaiah 44:23; Isaiah 56:9; Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 10:3; Jeremiah 12:8; Jeremiah 21:14; Jeremiah 26:18; Jeremiah 46:23; Ezekiel 15:2; Ezekiel 15:6; Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 20:47; Hosea 2:12; Amos 3:4; Micah 3:12; Micah 5:8; Zechariah 11:2 • forests, 1 Ezekiel 39:10 • honeycomb, 1 Song of Songs 5:1 • wood, 18 Deuteronomy 19:5; Joshua 17:15; Joshua 17:18; 1 Samuel 14:25; 1 Samuel 14:26; 2 Samuel 18:6; 2 Samuel 18:8; 2 Samuel 18:17; 2 Kings 2:24; 1 Chronicles 16:33; Psalm 80:13; Psalm 83:14; Psalm 96:12; Psalm 132:6; Ecclesiastes 2:6; Song of Songs 2:3; Isaiah 7:2; Micah 7:14 • woods, 1 Ezekiel 34:25