So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;
The battle was in the wood of Ephraim, х ya`ar (H3293), a forest, or dense growth of trees]. Its name was derived, according to some, from the slaughter of the Ephraimites by Jephthah (Judges 12:1-15); according to others, from the connection of blood with the trans-Jordanic Manasseh.