The word in Scripture

Forest in the Bible

The word forest appears 38 times in the King James Version of the Bible. A forest is the wild wood, under the reign of its Maker. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What forest means in the Bible

A forest is the wild wood, under the reign of its Maker.

Where the word forest appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word forest appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.”Psalms 50:10

“Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.”Psalms 104:20

“And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.”Isaiah 10:34

“And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.”Isaiah 22:8

“Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.”Jeremiah 12:8

“They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.”Jeremiah 46:23

“Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?”Ezekiel 15:2

“And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.”Hosea 2:12