Strong's #3293: ya`ar (pronounced yah'-ar)
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ya‛ar
1) forest, wood, thicket, wooded height
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure
Usage:
This word is used 58 times:
Ezekiel 34:25: "safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods."
Ezekiel 39:10: "neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire:"
Hosea 2:12: "my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat"
Amos 3:4: "Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry"
Micah 3:12: "and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest."
Micah 5:8: "people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who,"
Micah 7:14: "of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan"
Zechariah 11:2: "O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down."
