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 of Hareth.
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Zechariah 11:2
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.
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יַעַר
yaʻar · yah'-ar
37 times translated as this KJV form58 total Strong's occurrences
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
Strong's KJV usage: (honey-) comb, forest, wood.
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Strong's first: 1 Samuel 22:5Strong's last: Zechariah 11:2
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pardêç · par-dace'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a park
Strong's KJV usage: forest, orchard.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:8Strong's last: Nehemiah 2:8
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H3293
Wherefore a lion out of the forest 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.
H3293
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
H3293
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
H3293
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
H3293
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.
H3293
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
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forest
FOR'EST, noun [Latin foris.]
1. An extensive wood, or a large tract of land covered with trees. In America, the word is usually applied to a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated. It differs from wood or woods chiefly in extent. We read of the Hercynian forest in Germany, and the forest of Ardennes, in France or Gaul.
2. In law, in Great Britain, a certain territory of woody grounds and pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest chase and warren, to rest and abide in, under the protection of the king, for his pleasure. In this sense, the word has no application in America.
Forest laws, laws for governing and regulating forests, and preserving game.
FOR'EST, verb transitive To cover with trees or wood.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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