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Jaar
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a town of Benjamin / Judah 12 km WNW of Jerusalem
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Jaar (31° 46´, 34° 59´)
Hebrew
Strongs #03293: rey ya`ar
1) forest, wood, thicket, wooded height3293 ya`ar 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.
JAAR [ISBE]
JAAR - ja'-ar (ya`ar, "forest" or "wood"): Is only once taken as a proper name (Ps 132:6 the Revised Version margin), "We found it in the field of Jaar." It may be a shortened form of the name Kiriath-jearim, where the ark had rested 20 years.See KIRIATH-JEARIM.