Every Name in Tanakh

יַעַר Yaar

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

Other nameGematria 280×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A forest; hence, honey in the comb. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Psalms 132:6.

Psalms 132:6תהלים קלב:ו

הִנֵּֽה־שְׁמַֽעֲנוּהָ בְאֶפְרָתָה מְצָאנוּהָ בִּשְׂדֵי־יָֽעַר

Lo, we heard of it as being in Ephrath; We found it in the field of athe wood.

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What is the gematria of Yaar?

Yaar — יער in Hebrew — has a gematria of 280 in the standard method.

How many times is Yaar named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at Psalms 132:6.

A spelling is not a name. The written word יער stands 24 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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