שְׁדֵמָה
shᵉdêmâh · shed-ay-maw'
a cultivated field
Lexicon
Derivation: apparently from H7704 (שָׂדֶה);
a cultivated field
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: blasted, field.
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
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- 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 › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the doorway, the way in of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׁדֵמָה 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
6 occurrences · 6 OT · 0 NT · 6 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and of the fields1 · 17%
- in the fields1 · 17%
- for the fields1 · 17%
- and as corn blasted1 · 17%
- and all the fields1 · 17%
- and the fields1 · 17%
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.