Jaar

JAAR ja'-ar (ya`ar, "forest" or "wood"):

Is only once taken as a proper name (Psalms 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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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'JAAR'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.