Topic
Jaar
1 passage cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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- Psalms 132:6ISBE
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 1 references
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.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.