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Jaar

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, wh...

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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.

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