The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.