Field
יָגֵבStrong’s H3010yagev (ya-gev)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yagev is the Hebrew word usually translated “fields”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.”
Meaning
- Field, ploughed field
How it's translated
- and fields 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יָגֵב yagev · field
field, ploughed field
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “field” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FIELD, noun
- A piece of land inclosed for tillage or pasture; any part of a farm, except the garden and appurtenances of the mansion; properly land not covered with wood, and more strictly applicable to tillage land than to mowing land, which is often called meadow.
- Ground not inclosed.
- The ground where a battle is fought.
- A battle; action in the field
All definitions
- To keep the field is to keep the campaign open; to live in tents, or to be in a state of active operations.
- A wide expanse.
- Open space for action or operation; compass; extent.
- A piece or tract of land.“The field I give thee and the cave that is therein” Genesis 23:11
- The ground or blank space on which figures are drawn; as the field or ground of a picture.
- In heraldry, the whole surface of the shield, or the continent.
- In scripture, field often signifies the open country, ground not inclosed, as it may in some countries in modern times.
- A field of ice, a large body of floating ice.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.