ya.ar denotes a wooded area, including a forest as a place of trees, animals, travel, battle, or clearing.

The term consistently denotes a wooded area or forest: a place entered or cleared, inhabited by animals, filled with trees, or used as the setting for conflict. It can also stand in construct phrases that identify a forest by its associated place or describe a house in relation to Lebanon’s wood.

1. Wooded area or forest · dominant

   The singular noun identifies a locale of trees in several settings: David goes to the forest of Hereth in 1 Samuel 22:5, and a person enters the wood to cut trees in Deuteronomy 19:5. In 2 Samuel 18:6 the battle is located in the wood of Ephraim; in Amos 3:4 a lion roars there; and in Ezekiel 39:10 the plural form refers to forests from which people would cut material. In Isaiah 29:17 the APB renders the clause that a plantation will be regarded as “wood,” showing a densely treed place in contrast with a plantation.

   1 Samuel 22:5Deuteronomy 19:52 Samuel 18:6Amos 3:4Ezekiel 39:10Isaiah 29:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “forest” or “wood,” and uses “woods” for plural occurrences such as Ezekiel 34:25 and Ezekiel 39:10. In construct phrases it also renders “House of the Forest of Lebanon” or “house of the wood of Lebanon”; these are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.