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שָׂדֶהStrong’s H7704

sadeh (sa-deh)

Appears in 309 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sadeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “field”, “open country” and “field of”. It appears in 309 verses of the Old Testament.

“Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.”
Zechariah 10:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. This name means field, land, plain
  2. Field, landopen field, country · definite portion of ground, field, land · land (opposed to sea)
How it's translated
  • the field 129
  • in the field 42
  • field 21
  • in the open country 20
  • field of 16
  • a field 13
  • in region of 10
  • region of 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 43
  • Jeremiah 27
  • Ezekiel 26
  • Leviticus 22
  • 1 Samuel 21
  • Exodus 16

30 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 309 verses, by book
2 Chronicles 4
25:1826:2331:531:19
Ecclesiastes 1
5:9
Song of Solomon 3
2:73:57:11
Lamentations 1
4:9
Obadiah 1
1:19
Zechariah 1
10:1
Malachi 1
3:11
Hebrew dictionary

שָׂדַי saday · Sirion

This name means field, land, plain Another spelling of cher.mon (חֶרְמוֹן "(Mount )Hermon" H2768)

שָׂדֶה sadeh · land

: soil 1) field, land 1a) open field, country 1b) definite portion of ground, field, land 1c) land (opposed to sea)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “land” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LAND, noun

  1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part.
  2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region.“Go, view the land even Jericho” Joshua 2:1
  3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground.
  4. Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land
All definitions and other forms of “land”
  1. Real Estate.
  2. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people.
  3. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land

LAND, noun

Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. obsolete

    LAND, verb transitive

    to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods.

      LAND, verb intransitive

      To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.

        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.