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(יער ×פרי×, ya‛ar 'ephrayim): The word ya‛ar (Hebrew) probably agrees in meaning with the Arabic wa‛r, which indicates a rough country, abounding in rocks, stones and scrub, with occasional trees; not a “forest,†as we understand the term. Here Absalom was defeated and slain (, the King James Version “wood of Ephraimâ€). It must be sought, therefore, east of the Jordan, in the neighborhood of Mahanaim; but no identification is yet possible.