Field
שְׁדֵמָהStrong’s H7709shedemah (she-de-mah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shedemah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from terraced fields of”, “fields of” and “field”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:”
Meaning
- Field
How it's translated
- and from terraced fields of 1
- in fields of 1
- fields of 1
- and a field 1
- the terraced fields 1
- and fields 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
- Isaiah 16:8For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
- Isaiah 37:27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- Jeremiah 31:40And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the LORD; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
- Habakkuk 3:17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁדֵמָה shedemah · field
field Also means: she.re.mah (שְׁרֵמָה "field" H8309)
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.