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Greek

4297. prokope -- progress
... obstacles . [This root () is also used in antiquity of and -- clearing away
(chopping down) forests in order to reach their destination.]. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7157. Qiryath Yearim -- "city of forests," a city given to Judah ...
Qiryath Yearim or Qiryath Arim. 7156, 7157. Qiryath Yearim or Qiryath Arim. 7158 .
"city of forests," a city given to Judah, then to Benjamin. Transliteration ...
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3293a. yaar -- wood, forest, thicket
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition wood, forest, thicket NASB Word Usage
forest (51), forests (2), Jaar (1), thickets (1), woodland (1), woods (2). ...
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3297. Yearim -- a mountain in Palestine
... NASB Word Usage Jearim (1). Jearim. Plural of ya'ar; forests; Jearim, a place in
Palestine -- Jearim. Compare Qiryath y'ariym. see HEBREW ya'ar. ...
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Library

Thus, Look at Every Free People, from the Mountains of Helvetia to ...
... XVII. Thus, look at every free People, from the mountains of Helvetia
to the forests of� Thus, look at every free People, from ...
/.../lamartine/atheism among the people/xvii thus look at every.htm

Psalm CXXXII.
... A place for the Lord. "We heard of it at Ephrata: and found it in the plains
of the forests." [5592] Did he hear it where he found it? ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm cxxxii.htm

The Bereavements of the Christian Home. [A]
... Some separate for another world; some are borne by the winds and waves to distant
lands; others enter the deep forests of the West, and are heard of no more ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxvi the bereavements of.htm

Elijah
... Consider his strange and wild life, wandering about in forests and mountains, suddenly
appearing, and suddenly disappearing again, so that no man knew where to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xix elijah.htm

But, Says My Opponent, if He was not a God...
... what if it swam across it? what if it hid itself in the dense forests? ... [5007] Here
the ms. and both Roman edd. insert the last clause, "what...forests.". ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/46 but says my opponent.htm

The Savanna of Aripo
... 'The northern chain of mountains, covered nearly everywhere with dense forests,
is intersected at various angles by numbers of valleys presenting the most ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xii the savanna of.htm

God, the All-Seeing One
... of the wild waves"the thousands who have perished in battle unnumbered and unnoticed"
the many who have died alone amid dreary forests, frozen seas, and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/god the all-seeing one.htm

The Death of Cyrus.
... by savage tribes, who lived on roots and herbs, and who were elevated very little,
in any respect, above the wild beasts that roamed in the forests around them ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/cyrus the great/chapter xii the death of.htm

God, the All-Seeing One
... of the wild waves"the thousands who have perished in battle, unnumbered and
unnoticed"the many who have died alone, amid dreary forests, frozen seas, and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/god the all-seeing one.htm

National Wealth
... small yeomen; to till miserable little patches of corn, of which we should be now
ashamed, and to feed cattle on the moors, and swine in the forests"and that ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon xvi national wealth.htm

Thesaurus

Forests (12 Occurrences)
...Forests (12 Occurrences). ... (See NIV). 2 Chronicles 27:4 Moreover he built cities in
the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers. ...
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Discover (28 Occurrences)
... discovereth the forests," where the Revised Version (British and American) reads,
"strippeth the forests bare," ie "strippeth the forests of their leaves ...
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Forest (67 Occurrences)
... Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Ecclesiastes 2:6; Isaiah 44:14; Jeremiah
5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of ...
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Armenia (2 Occurrences)
... In early Babylonian legends Armenia figures as an almost unknown land far to the
North, full of high mountains and dense forests, containing the entrance to ...
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Cyprus (12 Occurrences)
... intended. The chief source of the island's wealth, however, lay in its
mines and forests. Silver is mentioned by Strabo (loc. cit ...
/c/cyprus.htm - 27k

Phoenicians
... with cedar, oak, and pine trees, which are still found in considerable numbers,
but by far the larger part of the mountain has been denuded of forests, and the ...
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Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)
... with cedar, oak, and pine trees, which are still found in considerable numbers,
but by far the larger part of the mountain has been denuded of forests, and the ...
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Cattle (277 Occurrences)
... This is a forest-dwelling species and is now confined to the forests of
Lithuania and the Caucasus. It was formerly more widely ...
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Botany
... evident. Not only in small forests such as those mentioned, but also in
isolated groups all over the land they may be found. Their ...
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Kirjath-jearim (17 Occurrences)
... City of jaars; ie, of woods or forests, a Gibeonite town (Joshua 9:17) on the
border of Benjamin, to which tribe it was assigned (18:15, 28). ...
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Bible Concordance

Forests (12 Occurrences)

2 Kings 19:23 By the messengers thou hast taunted the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice cypresses thereof; and I have entered into his farthest lodge, the forest of his fruitful field.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Psalms 29:9 Yahweh's voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, "Glory!"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 10:18 And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, he will consume both soul and body; and it shall be as when a sick man wasteth away.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 10:19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 10:34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
(WBS)

Isaiah 17:9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 37:24 By thy servants hast thou taunted the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I have cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice cypress-trees thereof; and I have entered into his farthest height, the forest of his fruitful field.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 44:23 Sing, O ye heavens, for the LORD hath done it; shout, ye lowest parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein; for the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and doth glorify Himself in Israel.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 21:14 And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed -- all its suburbs!
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 34:25 And I have made for them a covenant of peace, And caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, And they have dwelt in a wilderness confidently, And they have slept in forests.
(YLT NIV)

Ezekiel 39:10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Forests

Forests of the Unfruitful World

Forests were Places of Refuge

Forests: (A Fruitful Field Turned Into) of the Jews Rejected by God

Forests: (Destroyed by Fire) of Destruction of the Wicked

Forests: Abounded With Wild Honey

Forests: Arabian

Forests: Bashan

Forests: Called on to Rejoice at God's Mercy

Forests: Carmel

Forests: Ephraim