sade · field

What it means

sade (שָׂדֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “field”.

Open country, cultivated or not.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The open country: "the beasts of the field".
2. Land that is farmed.
3. A region: "the fields of Moab".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Field: open land, cultivated or not. BDB defines it as a field: open country or cultivated land.

• The open country, outside the city Genesis 4:8Genesis 25:27
• Farmland Genesis 2:5Ruth 2:2
• A field as property that is bought Genesis 23:17
• “Animal of the field”: wild animals Genesis 3:1
• “The fields of Moab”: its territory Ruth 1:6

Historical and cultural background

The law commanded not to reap to the edge of the field nor gather the gleanings, but to leave them for the poor and the resident alien (Leviticus 19:9-10); that is how Ruth gleans in Boaz's field (Ruth 2).

How we translate it

“Field” 290 times, “fields” 29, “country” 9, “wild” 2. It is translated “field” consistently, as this edition's glossary sets; “wild” only for plants that grow uncultivated (“a wild vine”, 2 Kings 4:39).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• field ×290
• fields ×29
• country ×9
• land ×2
• wild ×2
• territory ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×48
• Exodus×22
• Leviticus×25
• Numbers×8
• Deuteronomy×14
• Joshua×4
• Judges×12
• Ruth×16
• 1 Samuel×22
• 2 Samuel×13
• 1 Kings×5
• 2 Kings×12
• 1 Chronicles×8
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Nehemiah×10
• Job×5
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×5
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×3
• Isaiah×10
• Jeremiah×27
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×26
• Hosea×7
• Joel×6
• Obadiah×2
• Micah×5
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 2:5

  Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for YHWH Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no human being to work the ground;

• Genesis 2:19

  And YHWH Elohim formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called it, as a living being, that was its name.

• Genesis 2:20

  And the man gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the sky and to every animal of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper corresponding to him.

• Genesis 3:1

  Now the serpent was more shrewd than any animal of the field that YHWH Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, “Did Elohim really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

• Genesis 3:14

  And YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all the livestock and from among every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

• Genesis 3:18

  And thorns and thistles it will make sprout for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

• Genesis 4:8

  And Cain said to Abel his brother … And it happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

• Genesis 14:7

  Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

• Genesis 23:9

  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field. For the full amount of silver let him give it to me among you as a possession for a grave.”

• Genesis 23:11

  “No, my lord, hear me: the field I give you, and the cave that is in it I give it to you. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

• Genesis 23:13

  and he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If only you would hear me! I give the silver for the field; take it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

• Genesis 23:17

  The field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which is facing Mamre, the field and the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, that were within all its borders all around, were made over

• Genesis 23:19

  After this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah facing Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 23:20

  The field and the cave that was in it were made over to Abraham as a possession for a grave by the sons of Heth.

• Genesis 24:63

  Isaac went out to meditate in the field as evening drew near; he lifted up his eyes and saw, and look, camels were coming.

• Genesis 24:65

  She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “He is my lord.” So she took the veil and covered herself.

• Genesis 25:9

  His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is facing Mamre,

• Genesis 25:10

  the field that Abraham had bought from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

• Genesis 25:27

  The boys grew up, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field, while Jacob was a man of integrity, living in tents.

• Genesis 25:29

  Jacob cooked a stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

• Genesis 27:3

  So now, take, please, your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,

• Genesis 27:5

  Now Rebekah was listening while Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it.

• Genesis 27:27

  So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that YHWH has blessed.

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 30:14

  In the days of the wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to Leah his mother. Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes of your son.”

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.

• Genesis 31:4

  So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock.

• Genesis 32:3

  Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

• Genesis 33:19

  He bought the piece of the field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitah.

• Genesis 34:5

  Jacob heard that he had made Dinah his daughter unclean; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came.

• Genesis 34:7

  The sons of Jacob came from the field when they heard it, and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done an outrage in Israel by lying with the daughter of Jacob, and such a thing is not done.

• Genesis 34:28

  Their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, they took.

• Genesis 36:35

  Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who struck Midian in the country of Moab, reigned in his place; and the name of his city was Avith.

• Genesis 37:7

  Look, we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and look, my sheaf rose and also stood upright; and look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down before my sheaf.”

• Genesis 37:15

  A man found him, and look, he was wandering in the field; and the man asked him, saying, “What are you seeking?”

• Genesis 39:5

  From the time that he appointed him in his house and over all that he had, YHWH blessed the house of the Egyptian because of Joseph; and the blessing of YHWH was on all that he had, in the house and in the field.

• Genesis 41:48

  He gathered all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and put food in the cities; the food of the fields of each city that surrounded it he put in it.

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold each man his field, because the famine was strong upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 47:24

  And at the harvests you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours, as seed for the field and as your food and for those in your households, and as food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 49:29

  He commanded them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

And 293 more times.