שְׁדֵמָה
shedema · terraced field
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7709 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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shedema (שְׁדֵמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “terraced field”.
A cultivated field, a terrace for growing crops.
How to say it
she·de·ma
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
- Land sown with grain and worked to bear a harvest.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fields ×5
- sown field ×1
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; they have bitter clusters.
- 2 Kings 23:4
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out from the temple of YHWH all the utensils made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their dust to Bethel.
- Isaiah 16:8
For the fields of Heshbon languish, the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have struck down its choice branches; as far as Jazer they reached, they wandered into the wilderness; its shoots spread out, they crossed over the sea.
- Isaiah 37:27
Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, and a sown field before it grows up.
- Jeremiah 31:40
And the whole valley of the corpses and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron, as far as the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, will be holiness to YHWH; it will not be uprooted or demolished anymore, forever.”
- Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,