Choresh חֹ֫רֶשׁ

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Choresh (Hebrew חֹ֫רֶשׁ, Strong's H2793) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Horesh”. It occurs 7 times.

Definition

This name means wood, forest

1) wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area.

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	wood (4), forests (1), bough (1), shroud (1)
BSB	horesh (3), was in horesh (1), forests (1), thickets (1), forest (1)

Every verse with Choresh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

1 Samuel 23:15
And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.While David was in Horesh in the Wilderness of Ziph, he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
1 Samuel 23:16
And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.And Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and strengthened his hand in God,
1 Samuel 23:18
And they two made a covenant before the Lord: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.
1 Samuel 23:19
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?

2 Chronicles 27:4
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.

Isaiah 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.

Ezekiel 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).