שָׂדֶהsâdeh
שָׂדַי: field, land
Pronunciation: saw-deh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7704
Meanings
1. cultivated field (Hosea 12:12; Hosea 10:4; Deuteronomy 32:13)
2. home of wild beasts (Psalms 8:8; Joel 2:22; Isaiah 56:9)
3. plain, opposite mountain, but dubious (Jeremiah 18:14)
4. land, opposed to sea (Psalms 96:12; Psalms 98:7)
שָׂדֶה: id.
1. open field, country
a. pasture-land (Genesis 29:2; Genesis 30:16; Exodus 9:3)
b. unfrequented (Genesis 24:63; Genesis 24:65; Genesis 4:8)
c. specifically home of beasts (2 Samuel 17:8; Jeremiah 14:5; Genesis 2:19)
d. yielding plants and trees (Genesis 25:27; Genesis 30:14; Exodus 10:5)
e. stony (Job 5:23)
f. open country, outside of walled city (Judges 9:32; Judges 9:42; Judges 9:43)
g. = expanse of country, opposed to mountain (Judges 5:18; Jeremiah 17:3; Micah 1:6)
2. field, land, definite portion of ground
a. cultivated ground (Genesis 37:7; Genesis 47:24; Exodus 22:4)
b. as private property (Micah 5:2; Micah 5:4; Isaiah 5:8)
c. city-land, adjacent to city (town) and subject to its control (Genesis 41:48; Leviticus 25:34; Joshua 21:12)
d. territory of nation, tribe (Genesis 32:4; Numbers 21:20; Judges 5:4)
3. land, opposed to sea (1 Chronicles 16:32; Psalms 96:12; Ezekiel 26:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 333 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:5 neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil.
- Genesis 2:19 So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one.
- Genesis 2:20 He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him.
- Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
- Genesis 3:14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
- Genesis 3:18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.
See every passage
- Genesis 2:5, 2:19, 2:20, 3:1, 3:14, 3:18, 4:8, 14:7, 23:9, 23:11, 23:13, 23:17, 23:19, 23:20, 24:63, 24:65, 25:9, 25:10, 25:27, 25:29, 27:3, 27:5, 27:27, 29:2, 30:14, 30:16, 31:4, 32:3, 33:19, 34:5, 34:7, 34:28, 36:35, 37:7, 37:15, 39:5, 41:48, 47:20, 47:24, 49:29, 49:30, 49:32, 50:13
- Exodus 1:14, 8:13, 9:3, 9:19, 9:21, 9:22, 9:25, 10:5, 10:15, 16:25, 22:5, 22:6, 22:31, 23:11, 23:16, 23:29
- Leviticus 14:7, 14:53, 17:5, 19:9, 19:19, 23:22, 25:3, 25:4, 25:12, 25:31, 25:34, 26:4, 26:22, 27:16, 27:17, 27:18, 27:19, 27:20, 27:21, 27:22, 27:24, 27:28
- Numbers 16:14, 19:16, 20:17, 21:20, 21:22, 22:4, 22:23, 23:14
- Deuteronomy 5:21, 7:22, 11:15, 14:22, 20:19, 21:1, 22:25, 22:27, 24:19, 28:3, 28:16, 28:38, 32:13
- Joshua 8:24, 15:18, 21:12, 24:32
- Judges 1:14, 5:4, 5:18, 9:27, 9:32, 9:42, 9:43, 9:44, 13:9, 19:16, 20:6, 20:31
- Ruth 1:1, 1:2, 1:6, 1:22, 2:2, 2:3, 2:6, 2:8, 2:9, 2:17, 2:22, 4:3, 4:5
- 1 Samuel 4:2, 6:1, 6:14, 6:18, 8:14, 11:5, 14:14, 14:15, 14:25, 17:44, 19:3, 20:5, 20:11, 20:24, 20:35, 22:7, 25:15, 27:5, 27:7, 27:11, 30:11
- 2 Samuel 1:21, 2:18, 9:7, 10:8, 11:11, 11:23, 14:6, 17:8, 18:6, 19:29, 20:12, 21:10, 23:11
- 1 Kings 2:26, 11:29, 14:11, 16:4, 21:24
- 2 Kings 4:39, 7:12, 8:3, 8:5, 8:6, 9:25, 9:37, 14:9, 18:17, 19:26
- 1 Chronicles 1:46, 6:56, 8:8, 11:13, 16:32, 19:9, 27:25, 27:26
- 2 Chronicles 25:18, 26:23, 31:5, 31:19
- Nehemiah 5:3, 5:4, 5:5, 5:11, 5:16, 11:25, 11:30, 12:29, 12:44, 13:10
- Job 5:23, 24:6, 39:15, 40:20
- Psalms 8:7, 50:11, 78:12, 78:43, 80:13, 96:12, 103:15, 104:11, 107:37, 132:6
- Proverbs 23:10, 24:27, 24:30, 27:26, 31:16
- Ecclesiastes 5:9
- Song of Solomon 2:7, 3:5, 7:11
- Isaiah 5:8, 7:3, 32:12, 36:2, 37:27, 40:6, 43:20, 55:12, 56:9
- Jeremiah 4:17, 6:12, 6:25, 7:20, 8:10, 9:22, 12:4, 12:9, 13:27, 14:5, 14:18, 17:3, 18:14, 26:18, 27:6, 28:14, 32:7, 32:8, 32:9, 32:15, 32:25, 32:43, 32:44, 35:9, 40:7, 40:13, 41:8
- Lamentations 4:9
- Ezekiel 7:15, 16:5, 16:7, 17:5, 17:8, 17:24, 20:46, 26:6, 26:8, 29:5, 31:4, 31:5, 31:6, 31:13, 31:15, 32:4, 33:27, 34:5, 34:8, 34:27, 36:30, 38:20, 39:4, 39:5, 39:10, 39:17
- Hosea 2:12, 2:18, 4:3, 10:4, 12:11, 12:12, 13:8
- Joel 1:10, 1:11, 1:12, 1:19, 1:20, 2:22
- Obadiah 1:19
- Micah 1:6, 2:2, 2:4, 3:12, 4:10
- Zechariah 10:1
- Malachi 3:11
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).