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Lexicon :: Strong's H7704 - śāḏê

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שָׂדֶה
Transliteration
śāḏê
Pronunciation
saw-deh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to spread out
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2236a,2236b

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂדֶה sâdeh, saw-deh'; or שָׂדַי sâday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat):—country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 333x

The KJV translates Strong's H7704 in the following manner: field (292x), country (17x), land (11x), wild (8x), ground (4x), soil (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 333x
The KJV translates Strong's H7704 in the following manner: field (292x), country (17x), land (11x), wild (8x), ground (4x), soil (1x).
  1. field, land

    1. cultivated field

    2. of home of wild beasts

    3. plain (opposed to mountain)

    4. land (opposed to sea)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂדֶה sâdeh, saw-deh'; or שָׂדַי sâday; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat):—country, field, ground, land, soil, × wild.
STRONGS H7704: Abbreviations
שָׂדַי noun masculinePsalm 96:12 field, land (rare original form of שָׂדֶה (which see below), only in poetry); — absolute שׂ׳ Jeremiah 4:17, שָׂדָ֑י Hosea 10:4 +; —
1. cultivated field Hosea 12:12, also Hosea 10:4 (si vera lectio, but see Now), yielding food Deuteronomy 32:13; Lamentations 4:9; שֹׁמְרֵי שׂ׳ Jeremiah 4:17 keepers, watchmen of a field.
2. home of wild beasts: בְּהֵמוֺת שׂ׳ Psalm 8:8; Joel 2:22, חַיְתוֺ שׂ׳ Isaiah 56:9; Psalm 104:11, זִזִ שׂ׳ Psalm 50:11; Psalm 80:14.
3. plain, opposite mountain, Jeremiah 18:14; (but dubious, Co Du שִׂרְיֹן).
4. land, opposed to sea, Psalm 96:12 (compare שָׂדֶה 3; || תֵּבֵל Psalm 98:7).

שָׂדֶה 318 noun masculineLeviticus 27:24 id. (ordinary contracted form Ges§ 84 a f); — absolute שׂ׳ Genesis 2:5 (twice in verse) +; construct שְׂדֵה Genesis 14:7 +; suffix שָׂדִי Jeremiah 32:7, 8, שָֽׂדְךָ Deuteronomy 11:15 +, שָׂדֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 24:19; Leviticus 25:3, etc.; plural שָׂדוֺת 1 Samuel 22:7 +, construct שְׂדוֺת Nehemiah 12:29; also שְׂדֵי 2 Samuel 1:21; Isaiah 32:12; Ruth 1:1 + 8 times (some might be singular = שְׂדֵה compare BaZMG xlii (1888), 351 SS Buhl; note, e.g. שְׂדֵי Ruth 1:6a, = שְׂדֵה Ruth 1:6b Ruth 4:3; but see Köii. 1, 77); suffix שְׂדֹתֶיהָ Nehemiah 11:30, etc.; also שָׂדֶיךָ 1 Kings 2:26, שָׂדֵינוּ Micah 2:4; —
1. open field, country:
a. pasture-land Genesis 29:2; Genesis 30:16; Exodus 9:3 (all J), Deuteronomy 11:15; 1 Samuel 11:5 + 10 times J, JE.
b. unfrequented Genesis 24:63, 65, exposed to violence Genesis 4:8 (J), 2 Samuel 14:6; Deuteronomy 21:1; Deuteronomy 22:25, 27, to wild beasts Exodus 22:30 (E), Ezekiel 33:27.
c. specifically home of beasts: 2 Samuel 17:8; Jeremiah 14:5; especially phrase חַיַּת הַשּׂ׳ Genesis 2:19, 20; Genesis 3:1, 14 (all J) of beasts in general, and, of wild beasts, Exodus 23:11, 29 (E), Hosea 2:14; Hosea 2:20; Hosea 4:3; Hosea 13:8; Deuteronomy 7:22; Leviticus 26:22 (H), Job 5:23 (|| חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ), + 16 times; בֶּהֱמַת הַשּׂ׳ 1 Samuel 17:44 compare Joel 1:20; אַיְלוֺת הַשּׂ׳ Songs 2:7; Songs 3:5, compare הַצְּבָיִם אֲשֶׁר בַּשּׂ׳ 2 Samuel 2:18; hunting-ground Genesis 25:29; Genesis 27:3, 5 (all J E), compare אִישׁ שׂ׳ Genesis 25:27 (J E; || אִישׁ יֹדֵעַ צַיִד).
d. yielding plants and trees: Genesis 25:27 (JE), Genesis 30:14 (J), Exodus 10:5 (JE), 2 Kings 4:39; Ezekiel 21:2; Ezekiel 39:10; especially phrase עֵשֶׂב הַשּׂ׳ Genesis 2:5; Genesis 3:18 (both J), + 6 times + בַּשּׂ׳ ע׳ Zechariah 10:1; שִׂיח הַשּׂ׳ Genesis 2:5, גֶּפֶן שׂ׳ 2 Kings 4:39, שׂ׳ פַּקֻּעֹת 2 Kings 4:39, צִיץ הַשּׂ׳ Isaiah 40:15; Psalm 103:15, צֶמַח הַשּׂ׳ Ezekiel 16:7; עֵץ הַשּׂ׳ (4 times עֲצֵי) Exodus 9:25 (JE), Deuteronomy 20:19; Leviticus 26:4 (H) Isaiah 55:12 + 8 times; 2 Samuel 1:21 see תְּרוּמָה, √ רום.
e. stony, אַבְנֵי הַשּׂ׳ Job 5:23.
f. open country, outside of walled city Judges 9:32, 42, 43, 44; Judges 19:16; 1 Samuel 19:3; 1 Samuel 20:5, 11 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 20:24, 35; 2 Kings 7:12; Micah 4:10; as battle-ground Joshua 8:24 (J), 2 Samuel 10:8 = 1 Chronicles 19:9; 2 Samuel 11:23; 2 Samuel 18:6, outside of military camp 1 Samuel 4:2; 1 Samuel 14:15; opposed to city (in formula) 1 Kings 14:11; 1 Kings 16:4; 1 Kings 21:24; Jeremiah 14:18; Ezekiel 7:15; שְׂדֵה אֶרֶץ Leviticus 25:31; as site of small town, country1 Samuel 27:5 (opposed to royal city), compare 1 Chronicles 27:25; of high places, גְּבָעוֺת בַּשּׂ׳ Jeremiah 13:27; quite general, 1 Samuel 30:11; Jeremiah 40:7, 13; including road Judges 20:31; 1 Kings 11:29; Jeremiah 6:25; distinguished from road Numbers 22:23 (JE), 2 Samuel 20:12; outside houses and courtyards Exodus 8:9 (P), 1 Samuel 25:15; בַּשּׂ׳ nearly = outdoors Exodus 1:14 (P), Judges 13:9; of surface of country or ground, בַּשּׂ׳ Exodus 16:25 (J E; = הַמִּדְבָּר עַל־פְּנֵי Exodus 16:14), compare 1 Samuel 14:25; so הַשּׂ׳ עַל־פְּנֵי (אֶל) 2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 9:22; Ezekiel 29:5 (|| הַמִּדְבָּ֫רָה), Ezekiel 32:4; Ezekiel 39:5; same phrase opposed to house, comfort, etc., 2 Samuel 11:11; Ezekiel 16:5, opposed to city Leviticus 14:7, 53, opposed to tent Numbers 19:16 (all P), opposed to tent of meeting Leviticus 17:5 (H).
g. = expanse of country, opposed to mountain, in phrase מְרוֺמֵי שׂ׳ Judges 5:18; הֲרָרִי בַּשּׂ׳ Jeremiah 17:3 (of Jerusalem) is dubious; compare לְעִי הַשּׂ׳ Micah 1:6 (Jeremiah 18:14 see שָׂדַי).
2. definite portion of ground, field, land:
a. cultivated ground Genesis 37:7 (E), Genesis 47:24 (J; זֶרַע הַשָּׂדֶה), Exodus 22:4 (3 times in verse); Exodus 22:5 (E), Leviticus 27:16, 17 (P), Micah 3:12 (in simile) Ruth 2:2 + 47 times, + שְׂדֵי תְרוּמוֺת 2 Samuel 1:21, זָֿ֑רַע שׂ׳ Ezekiel 17:5, שָׂדֶה טוֺב Ezekiel 17:8 good soil.
b. as private property, Micah 5:2; Micah 5:4; Isaiah 5:8 (twice in verse); Genesis 47:20 (J), Genesis 23:9, 11, 13 (P) + 50 times, + 2 Chronicles 26:23 (as burial-place); also חֶלְקַת (הַ)שּׂ׳, see חֶלְקָה; and צֹפִים שׂ׳, see צפה.
c. city-land, adjacent to city (town) and subject to its control: Genesis 41:48 (E), Leviticus 25:34 (P), Joshua 21:12 (P) = 1 Chronicles 6:41; Nehemiah 11:25, 30; Nehemiah 12:29, 44; specifically of Zoan Psalm 78:12; Psalm 78:43.
d. territory of nation, tribe: Genesis 32:4; Numbers 21:20 (both J E), Judges 5:4; Ruth 1:1, 2; Genesis 14:7 + 13 times + שְׂדֵה נִחֲלַת יִשׂ׳ Judges 20:6.
e. territory of king, 2 Samuel 9:7; 2 Samuel 13:30.
3. land, opposed to sea, 1 Chronicles 16:32 (opposed to הַיָּם; = שָׂדַי Psalm 96:12), perhaps also mainland Ezekiel 26:6, 8 (Co Krae Toy and others; not Sm).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:5; 2:5; 2:5; 2:19; 2:20; 3:1; 3:14; 3:18; 4:8; 14:7; 14:7; 23:9; 23:11; 23:13; 24:63; 24:65; 25:27; 25:27; 25:29; 27:3; 27:5; 29:2; 30:14; 30:16; 32:4; 37:7; 41:48; 47:20; 47:24

Exodus

1:14; 8:9; 9:3; 9:25; 10:5; 16:14; 16:25; 22:4; 22:5; 22:30; 23:11; 23:29

Leviticus

14:7; 14:53; 17:5; 25:3; 25:31; 25:34; 26:4; 26:22; 27:16; 27:17; 27:24

Numbers

19:16; 21:20; 22:23

Deuteronomy

7:22; 11:15; 11:15; 20:19; 21:1; 22:25; 22:27; 24:19; 32:13

Joshua

8:24; 21:12

Judges

5:4; 5:18; 9:32; 9:42; 9:43; 9:44; 13:9; 19:16; 20:6; 20:31

Ruth

1:1; 1:1; 1:2; 1:6; 1:6; 2:2; 4:3

1 Samuel

4:2; 11:5; 14:15; 14:25; 17:44; 19:3; 20:5; 20:11; 20:24; 20:35; 22:7; 25:15; 27:5; 30:11

2 Samuel

1:21; 1:21; 1:21; 2:18; 9:7; 10:8; 11:11; 11:23; 13:30; 14:6; 17:8; 18:6; 20:12

1 Kings

2:26; 11:29; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24

2 Kings

4:39; 4:39; 4:39; 7:12; 9:37

1 Chronicles

6:41; 16:32; 19:9; 27:25

2 Chronicles

26:23

Nehemiah

11:25; 11:30; 11:30; 12:29; 12:29; 12:44

Job

5:23; 5:23

Psalms

8:8; 50:11; 78:12; 78:43; 80:14; 96:12; 96:12; 96:12; 98:7; 103:15; 104:11

Song of Songs

2:7; 3:5

Isaiah

5:8; 32:12; 40:15; 55:12; 56:9

Jeremiah

4:17; 4:17; 6:25; 9:22; 13:27; 14:5; 14:18; 17:3; 18:14; 18:14; 32:7; 32:8; 40:7; 40:13

Lamentations

4:9

Ezekiel

7:15; 16:5; 16:7; 17:5; 17:8; 21:2; 26:6; 26:8; 29:5; 32:4; 33:27; 39:5; 39:10

Hosea

2:14; 2:20; 4:3; 10:4; 10:4; 12:12; 13:8

Joel

1:20; 2:22

Micah

1:6; 2:4; 3:12; 4:10; 5:2; 5:4

Zechariah

10:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7704 matches the Hebrew שָׂדֶה (śāḏê),
which occurs 334 times in 309 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Deu 28:38–1Sa 27:7)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:38 - You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:13 - He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with honey out of the rock,
and oil out of the flinty rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 - As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.[fn] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - “LORD, when you went out from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled
and the heavens dropped,
yes, the clouds dropped water.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:18 - Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;
Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:27 - And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:32 - Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:42 - On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:43 - He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:44 - Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:9 - And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:6 - So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 - In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:2 - The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:6 - Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:22 - So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:17 - So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah[fn] of barley.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth[fn] the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:1 - The ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:14 - The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:18 - and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:14 - He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5 - Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:14 - And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre[fn] of land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:15 - And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:25 - Now when all the people[fn] came to the forest, behold, there was honey on the ground.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:3 - And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:11 - And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:24 - So David hid himself in the field. And when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:35 - In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:15 - Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 - Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:7 - And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

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