And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.
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חֹרֶשׁ
H2793 · chôresh · kho'-resh · Hebrew
Strong’s definition
a forest (perhaps as furnishing the material for fabric)
KJV usage
bough, forest, shroud, wood.
KJV renderings in this mapping
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Mapped occurrences
And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.
And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.