שָׂדֶה
sâdeh · saw-deh'
a field (as flat)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שָׂדַי; from an unused root meaning to spread out;
a field (as flat)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: country, field, ground, land, soil, [idiom] wild.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the doorway, the way in › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׂדֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
334 occurrences · 334 OT · 0 NT · 116 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the field80 · 36%
- in the field44 · 20%
- field16 · 7%
- into the field12 · 5%
- the field10 · 4%
- fields7 · 3%
- out of the field6 · 3%
- in the country5 · 2%
- a field4 · 2%
- to the field4 · 2%
- his field4 · 2%
- of ground3 · 1%
- thy field3 · 1%
- out of the country3 · 1%
- of a field3 · 1%
- shalt thou be in the field2 · 1%
- into the fields2 · 1%
- wild2 · 1%
- but the field2 · 1%
- of thy field2 · 1%
- and out of the fields2 · 1%
- as a field2 · 1%
- with the field2 · 1%
- that is in the field2 · 1%
- and the field2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.